Melville & the Spirit of Capitalism

[Terrance]

"There was no foreclosures or mortgages, no protested notes,
no bills  payables, no debts of honor in Typee; no
unreasonable
tailors and shoemakers, perversely bent on being paid; no
duns of any description; no poor relations, everlastingly
occupying the spare bedchamber, and diminishing the elbow
room at the family table; no destitute widows with their
children starving on the cold charities of the world; no
beggars; no debtor's prisons; no proud and hard-hearted
nabobs in Typee; or to sum all in one word--no MONEY!"

			--Melville