For fear
of mistake, I may as well distinctly specify, as cheerfully included in the model
and standard of these Vistas, a practical, stirring, worldly,
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money-making,
even materialistic character. It is undeniable that our farms, stores, offices,
dry-goods, coal and groceries, enginery, cash-accounts, trades, earnings, markets,
&c., should be attended to in earnest, and actively pursued, just as if they
had a real and permanent existence. I perceive clearly that the extreme business
energy, and this almost maniacal appetite for wealth prevalent in the United States,
are parts of amelioration and progress, indispensably needed to prepare the very
results I demand. My theory includes riches, and the getting of riches, and the
amplest products, power, activity, inventions, movements, &c. Upon them, as
upon substrata, I raise the edifice design'd in these Vistas.