Điều mà đối với tôi thông qua phương tiện của tiền đó mà tôi có thể trả tiền (ví dụ, mà tiền có thể mua) - cho tôi bản thân mình, sở hữu số tiền. Các mức độ sức mạnh của tiền là mức độ quyền lực của tôi. Tài sản tiền của tôi - người sở hữu của tài sản và quyền hạn cần thiết. Vì vậy, | begin first of all by expounding the passage from Goethe. That which is for me through the medium of money that for which I can pay . which money can buy that am I myself the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money s properties are my the possessor s properties and essential powers. Thus what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly for the effect of ugliness its deterrent power is nullified by money. I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad dishonest unscrupulous stupid but money is honoured and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good therefore its possessor is good. Money besides saves me the trouble of being dishonest I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless Besides he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has a power over the clever not more clever than the clever Do not I who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for possess all human capacities Does not my money therefore transform all my incapacities into their contrary If money is the bond binding me to human life binding society to me connecting me with nature and man is not money the bond of all bonds Can it not dissolve and bind all ties Is it not therefore also the universal agent of separation It is the coin that really separates as well as the real binding agent the . . . chemical power of society. Shakespeare stresses especially two properties of money 1. It is the visible divinity the transformation of all human and natural properties into their contraries the universal confounding and distorting of things impossibilities are soldered together by it. 2. It is the common whore the common procurer of people and
