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Quotation from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney
“Like a hypochondriac who is so absorbed in the processes of his own digestion that he goes to his grave before he has begun to live”
The Acquisitive Society, Ch. XI, 'Porro Unum Necessarium', p. 184 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920 (Project Gutenberg #33741))
Tawney's simile for industrial societies that neglect the ends of wealth in their preoccupation with acquiring it.
Citation: "Like a hypochondriac who is so absorbed in the processes of his own digestion that he goes to his grave before he has begun to live" — R. H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society, Ch. XI, 'Porro Unum Necessarium', p. 184 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920 (Project Gutenberg #33741)). (id tawney-the-acquisitive-society-q11)
