Welcome to Radical Personal Finance. In the audio file to come, I am going to read you the first

chapter of a book titled The Pleasures of Life by Sir John Lubbock. This is a philosophical work

that was written in the late 19th century. The book explores the various sources of happiness and

fulfillment available in life, emphasizing

the importance of both individual well-being and the impact of one's happiness on the

happiness of others. It is from one of the chapters in this book, from which the quote drawn in yesterday's podcast called The Value of Time,

the part of the composition that says,

Hours have wings, fly up to the author of time,

carry news of our usage.

That passage is drawn from one of the chapters of this book.

Book is written by Sir John Lubbock, who is the first Baron Avebury,

lived 1834 to 1913. He was an English banker, liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist,

and polymath. He worked in his family company as a banker, but made significant contributions

during his lifetime

in archaeology, ethnography, and several branches of biology. He coined the terms

Paleolithic and Neolithic to note the old and new stone ages, and he helped establish

archaeology as a scientific discipline and was influential in debates concerning

evolutionary theory. He introduced the first law for the protection of the UK's archaeological

and architectural heritage. He promoted the establishment of public libraries and was also a founding

member of the X club. This is an older book, and I enjoy sharing with you older books,

for the same reason I enjoy reading them, that I am reminded that the more things change,

the more they stay the same. The questions that you and I think about and discuss are not new

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