"It is most sad, but most certain, that we are like those Pharisees of old in this...that we too have made up our mind that we can serve God and Mammon at once; that the very classes among us who are most utterly given up to money-making, are the very classes which, in all denominations, make the loudest religious profession; that our churches and chapels are crowded on Sundays by people who souls are set, the whole week through, upon gain and nothing but gain."
-- Charles Kingsley, Westminster Sermons, Sermon XXVI, "God and Mammon", ~1881, cited in The Victorian Frame of Mind, Walter E. Houghton,
1957, p. 405.
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