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Article: No closer to true civilization. (Letters).
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- Catholic New Times
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- October 20, 2002
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Re: "The civilization of wealth," CNT, Sept. 8).
Going by Webster's Third New International Dictionary, it is very obvious that wealth cannot be civilized--it is only people who can be civilized. That doesn't mean that wealth cannot be used in helping to bring about civilization, but that is not one and the same as the civilization of wealth.
Possibly, Martin Luther King Jr. expressed a hope consistent with the dictionary definitions of civilization as well as anybody, when he stated, "I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds and dignity, equality and freedom ...