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In this chapter the author contends that quantities lead to avarice. The grasping spirit is intrinsically debasing and is simply a muck-rake for gathering up material things; it knows nothing of qualitative objective values, but looks only at quantities, ignobly trying to seize all it can get. Money is the general representative of all those values which are closely related to quantity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)