ABSTRACT
Alas my friend, not all the gentle wisdom of Solon can lift us out of the slough engulphing1 the European mind at this time2 – and which is more catching with its foul immoral miasma and more disastrous to the affl icted than the Bubonic plague or the disabling Infl uenza, because it may take a century to eradicate its poison – The poison, that is, of the all embracing effect on the mind, of greed.3
