Ignoble Treasure: Russell Kirk’s “Fate’s Purse”
Greed—like gluttony or sloth—is not conducive to human flourishing. Regarding greed, Russell Kirk commented, “Avarice, rather, is desiring more wealth than one’s soul can support properly. Avarice sometimes produces present poverty: the miser, proverbially, is ragged and lean.”[i] When he chose to personify greed in his fiction, Kirk had to look no further than his [...]
