Eight Pillars of Prosperity

It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This can not be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues m the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realisation of morality among the individuals of a community but no legal enactment can give prosperity to nay it cannot prevent the run of a man or a nation that has become lax and decadent in the pursuit and practice of virtue. The moral virtues are the foundation and support of prosperity as they are the soul of greatness. They endure forever and all the works of man which endure are built upon them. Without them there is neither strength stability nor substantial reality but only ephemeral dreams. To find moral principles is to have found prosperity greatness truth and is therefore to be strong valiant joyful and free.