Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-08

| nance. and there is urgent need for a
statue to her in Wall street.
Capitalism. says Sombart, started
exclusively in industries which were
fostered by love. 1t came into eXis-
tence at the same time as did forbid
den love. In the happy Middle Ages,
| before the extravagant American wife
was evolved, matrimony never led to
capitalism.
| Il was discreet and modest, demand
! ed no luxuries, and if money was
| wasted it was wasted by the husband
| on drink which led to bloated noses
| instead of bloated capitalism But this
stage passed There arrived the age of
what Sombart calls the secularization
| of love. The seeularization of love
| was the growth of love sentiment
which had nothing to do with matri-
mony, and in this xtra-matrimonial
| love we find the source of all the capt.
| talism of to-day.
| The secularization of love began at
| the court of Avignon. A whole acade-
| mic des gemmes amiables appeared.
Together with this operated the rena-
issanee notion of love, which was that
| love was inimcal to marriage, but
| NipStiN CVIliietttu w III luSulS, SIdCC
and wit.
The goddeSses of this new love Great
| ed capitalism by setting a tremendous
ly enhanced standard of comfort and
luxury. They established scores of
| new needs. The honest married wo-
man whom they supplanted never-so
Sombart sWears-washed, and If soap
to-day is a capitalistic industry that is
because queens, in order successfully
to compete with royal favoriteS, had
to copy the favorites and wash their
faces
With the faVorites, trying to steal a
march on the queens, invented all i'm
aginable unnecessary necessaries and
luxuries the queens, hoping to catch
them up, had to follow suit. And this
trend led us to universal demand for
articles of a Kind which could not be
produced except with the aid of CAPT.
tai; demand for silk, lace, looking
glasses. porcelain and hundred other
things formerly unknown.
All these silks, laees, looking glasses
and porcelain, says Sombart, were the
very first industries which came to be
developed on capitalistic lines. After
ward the other demands made by the
new type of women led to further cap
italistic enterprises.
Money had to be accumulated in or
der TO prepare economically and on a
vast scale things that spoiled women
must have. 1t was only later that men
saw that the accumulation of capital
also facilitated the cheap production of
necessaries. If it had not been for love
they might never have awakened to
the fact.
vi course, as political economy, all
this sounds dangerously frivolous, and
naturally If love is displayed as the
source of wealth to the blushing stu
dents OF the Berlin Commercial Aead-
ehly' the goggle-eyed orthodox profess
sors grow stiff with wrath. Not
word, they growl, about the infiu-
enee of labor, the growth of popula-
ZION, the conquest of steam, the dis
coVery of America. Nothing but this
ana facts from the goggle-eyed
professors grew out of at the age of
30
AND satirical articles are being pub
ilshed about our ingenious profess
sor, about .our master of paradoxes."
and about what is and what is not
worthy of thinker and a man of sci
ence
sombart laughs. His book is full of
overwhelming quotations and figures
TO prove the economical potency of
venus, and-unkindest of all-he
quotes figures and facts from the Cog
sie-eyed professor themselves.
What was it, asked Sombart. that
mace inevitable the vast accumulation
OF capital invested in modern build
ihss VINO is the god of skyscrapers?
amor of course, Louis Quatorze
spent 25,000,000 on Versailles Chateau.
ana that is equal to 100000, 900 TO-DAY.
IL was built entirely for Louis's sweet
heart, De la Valliere.
The chateau of Clagny and other
costly buildings were run I'D for other
favorites. The favorite paid vast s,ms
ior Injuries, and the result was an nm
eXampled growth of luxury manufac.
lures and luxury arts In 10 wears
ioilpaoeur spent Ss.00O.000 livres. Ac-
cunts OF Countess du Barry reveal the
outlay OF corresponding sums.
scores OF favorites of millionaire
Iarmers-generaf' of taxes set up an
entirely new standard of luxury and
out the money lavishly for manu-
iactures of objects of caprice.
Hence in measure, as I'VE see the
secuiarization of love and the dominion
Vi women growing, we see hard heart
eo business men putting their capital
together in order to make profit of the
.eXtravagant demand,
Love says Sombart, is the origin of
capital; and love. more than anv rival
factor determined the economical
course which was to be taken by En-
ropean civilization. Financiers, there
iore' should not condemn love; stern
'ohn -. Rockefeller should sacrifice a
iaino 10 it; for love. love only, is the
creator OF finance.-New York Press
Companionship in Solitude.
'oitude tries man in way So
a Lot IL