Cornhill Magazine,  9 (1864), 566–75.

Money and Manners

[George H Lewes] and [Thomas S Stephenson]

Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Time, Political Economy, Progress


    Summarises the views adumbrated by Wilhelm H Riehl in Culturstudien aus drei Jahrhunderten regarding 'the increased value of time, as a thing to be paid for'. Riehl suggests that although 'Peasants and children have always plenty of time on their hands', as the 'world becomes older, more educated, and, let us add, more aristocratic in its requirements, time becomes more precious'. Indeed, according to Riehl, that 'expensive article, Time' means that we can 'live most cheaply where people have most time, since they are willing to give their costliest article, Time, almost for nothing'. (573)



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