With respect to that great mass of business which has both an acquisitive and a productive side, these forces are gradually bringing us to an attitude of mind in which we regard gain as a by-product of service.
Legislation, public opinion, and the evolution of enforceable standards within particular business groups are tending all the while to narrow the sphere of purely acquisitive business.
Let this sad relation be a warning to all who look with acquisitive eyes on the scented jacket of our "Reynard.
Again: if collecting eggs, be content with half the sitting of a nest, and if you know of a very rare nest of eggs, do not take them all in your acquisitive greed.
A man may prosper much in twenty-five years, and Hector McKaye, albeit American born, was bred of an acquisitive race.
And Aquinas too; no one could be such an acquisitive and reasoning genius, without the love of knowledge in his soul.
One may speak of him as keen andacquisitive intellectually, and creative through his temperament.
To approach the problem from this point of view is much more hopeful, though infinitely more complex intellectually, than the approach which sets out with a fixed dualism between acquisitive and creative impulses.
To impute to the leaders of industry and commerce simply an acquisitive motive is not merely to lack insight into their conduct, but it is to lose the clew to bettering conditions.
If an acquisitiveimpulse were only more evenly developed, more of a real fact, than it is, it is quite possible that things would be better than they are.
What remains to the workman is however not so much acquisitive desires as love of security and a wish for a good time.
We follow the same logic in social matters when we believe that war exists because of bellicose instincts; or that a particular economic regime is necessary because of acquisitive and competitive impulses which must find expression.
Speaking roughly we may say that native activity is both creative and acquisitive, creative as a process, acquisitive in that it terminates as a rule in some tangible product which brings the process to consciousness of itself.
And if we are to shove a mythological psychology of instincts behind modern economics, we should do better to invent instincts for security, a good time, power and success than to rely upon an acquisitive instinct.
The acquisitive young man soon saw that toiling for the profit of others brought nothing but poverty himself; perhaps at the most, some small savings that were constantly endangered.
Vanderbilt, by no means possessed a monopoly of acquisitive enterprise; on every hand, and in every line, were men fully as active and unprincipled as he.
Under Socialism they will certainly look less to a man's means and acquisitive gifts, and more to the finer qualities of his personality.
Or, if you cannot face that, go childless, and let your life-work gild the palace of the millionaire's still more acquisitive descendants!
Within either family or civic group the effects of the acquisitive instincts were limited by the fact that individuals in their industrial relations were also kin or neighbors.
While in domestic and territorial agencies the acquisitive forces were to some degree beneficially controlled, they were also injuriously hampered.
The effect of all this on George Eliot's achievement was what must always occur when an intellect which is purely acquisitive and distributive insists on doing work that is appropriate only to imagination.
This moth was pedantry, the result doubtless of too much erudition encouraging a natural tendency in her mind, which as we have seen was acquisitive rather than inventive.
It was very unlike the usual selfish, acquisitive love of a man for a maid.
In the acquisitive mêlée most of them are as children compared with the Greek or the Semite.
They are thrifty, acquisitive and self supporting.
The desire to change things, to reform things was checked in the individual by a counter-desire for unlimited material success that throve on the very moral and political disorder against which all but his acquisitive instincts rebelled.
Meanwhile, with his creative instinct repressed, his acquisitive instinct, the race-instinct that rose as the personal instinct fell, was stimulated to the highest degree.
The social effect of the stimulation of the acquisitive instinct in the individual is a general "levelling down," and this is universally conceded to have been characteristic of the epoch of industrial pioneering.
But although his acquisitive instinct had been stimulated to excess, in his heart of hearts he was not a money-maker but an artist, and the artist in him would naturally, as I say, have acclaimed this opportunity.
In short, there were plenty of reasons dictated by his acquisitive instinct for making him reluctant to surrender the mining career in which he had proved himself so inept.
She only knew that he was doing exactly what she had been longing to do ever since she had first heard about the acquisitive Mr. Graemer.
He let himself intuitively guess at the whole damning chain of the Fat Baritone and his eternal gossiping and the pretty actress and the acquisitive manager.
The plan was to encourage the growth of an acquisitive spirit among the Indians to serve as a counterweight to the acquisitive spirit of the English.
Again, we may find the Sophist by descending through a different string of subordinate classes from the genus--Acquisitive Art.
He traces the Sophist by descending subdivision from the acquisitive genus of art.
The angler constructs nothing: he belongs to theacquisitive branch.
Colonel Mallett thought: "The acquisitive beast is striking attitudes on his fool of a son's account.
During the youth of the twins, the wives of several gentlemen present had called at intervals to inspect the growth of Anthony Seagrave's grandchildren, particularly those worthy and acquisitive ladies who had children themselves.
In the hunting stage of primitive life, and even in the pastoral stage, there was little private property, and hence little opportunity for the development of the acquisitive instinct.
The acquisitive impulse, which is also rather early in appearance, has an increasing share in this sort of moralization.
Life insurance has its root in fear for others, who are really part of one's self; the fear of the rainy day is back of most of the thrift, though the acquisitive feeling and duty may also operate powerfully.
The acquisitive impulses are very strong in most people but not necessarily in all, and we find great variability here as elsewhere in human character.
The whole conception rests on the social instinct's inhibitions of the acquisitive instinct and in the growth and strength of feelings of conscience and duty as previously described.
Honesty, in relation to property, is the control of the acquisitive impulses and instincts and is wrapped up with the idea of private property.
Very early does the child show that it prizes goods, shows an acquisitive trend that becomes finally glorified into a goal, an ambition.
He was no doubt acquisitive and retentive and mean-spirited, but these were merely the ugly aspects of a disposition that involved many other factors.
But what was there to think out, seeing that nature and law and custom have conspired together to put women altogether under the power of jealous and acquisitive men?
The shops gave her none of the acquisitive pleasure he had expected.
That was the path that carried me over my particular messy morass (that, and my acquisitive spirit that objected to giving up part of my goods and chattels!
Such societies may be called Acquisitive Societies, because their whole tendency and interest and preoccupation is to promote the acquisition of wealth.
He is the creature of the acquisitive instinct, whose sole merit is based upon successful efforts at accumulation.
In some respects there exists a parallel, and in others a contrast, between him and the possessor of the acquisitive instinct.
