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Love Of Money Is Detestable: I see us free to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue; that avarice is a vice; the exaction of usury is a misdemeanor; the love of money is detestable; and those walk most truly in the paths of virtue and sane wisdom who take least thought for the morrow.
We shall once more value ends above means; prefer the good to the useful. We shall honor those who teach us how to pluck the hour and the day, the delightful people who are capable of taking direct enjoyment in things; the lilies of the field who toil not, neither do they spin.2
Subjects and Themes. Robinson never married but he may well have been in love with the woman who married his older brother, Herman. Women were interesting and important to him, as was love, which the poems, notably the Arthurian trilogy, clearly show.
Robinson's gift for friendship was great and he commanded the lifelong devotion of many people, a number of whom he lived on, or with, for years. He hated borrowing money, but was wholly uncompromising in his devotion to poetry. When he finally made money, he repaid as many debts as he could.
GRESHAM'S LAW, gresh'amz, in economics, is usually stated as "bad money drives out good." The law stems from the fact that money has a value both as money and as a commodity in the open market. The former value is set arbitrarily by law and is relatively fixed; the latter is determined by supply and demand and varies from time to time, "Good money" has a higher value as a commodity than as money and will disappear from circulation.
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