In Wuthering Heights, “Fair means!” is what Cathy calls for, in order to prevent her husband, Edgar Linton, from summoning the servants in order to subdue Heathcliff. Fair means (measure), that is, not foul.
“Fair means!” she said, in answer to her husband’s look of angry surprise. “If you have not courage to attack him, make an apology, or allow yourself to be beaten. It will correct you of feigning more valour than you possess. No, I’ll swallow the key before you shall get it! I'm delightfully rewarded for my kindness to each! After constant indulgence of one’s weak nature, and the other’s bad one, I earn for thanks two samples of blind ingratitude, stupid to absurdity! Edgar, I was defending you and yours; and I wish Heathcliff may flog you sick, for daring to think an evil thought of me!’
Alright, by no means should you still fail to achieve a total grasp of the idea of “means” after these examples. So now, let’s move on to “a means to an end” (something that you do only to achieve a certain result, not because you want to do it) and ponder the question whether work is more important than merely a means to make some money.
Or whether is making money a mere means to an end also? Many people will say money is not what they want, but it’ll help them get happiness, which is the end of all ends, or the goal of all goals.
But can money get you happiness?
If that’s a tough question, let me ask you this: Do you live to eat or do you eat to live?
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