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Radical Personal Finance

955: The Clay Tablets from Babylon

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 9 of "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George Samuel Clason, published in 1926

https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-Magic-Story/dp/1939438632/

https://archive.org/details/richestmaninbaby00geor/mode/2up

 

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St. Swithin's College, Nottingham University, Newark on Trent, Nottingham,

0:19.4

October 21, 1934. Professor Franklin Caldwell,

0:23.6

Care of British Scientific Expedition, Hila Mesopotamia.

0:28.4

My dear Professor, the five clay tablets from your recent excavation in the ruins of Babylon

0:33.6

arrived on the same boat with your letter. I have been fascinated no end, and have spent many

0:38.4

pleasant hours translating their inscriptions. I should have answered your letter at once,

0:42.5

but delayed until I could complete the translations which are attached. The tablets arrived

0:47.0

without damage thanks to your careful use of preservatives and excellent packing.

0:51.9

You will be as astonished as we in the laboratory at the story they relate.

0:56.8

One expects the dim and distant past to speak of romance and adventure,

1:01.6

Arabian night sort of things, you know. When instead it discloses the problem of a person named

1:06.8

Debussy or to pay off his debts, one realizes that conditions upon this old world have not changed

1:11.9

as much in 5,000 years as one might expect. It's odd, you know, but these old inscriptions

1:18.1

ragged me, as the students say. Being a college professor, I'm supposed to be a thinking human

1:23.2

being, possessing a working knowledge of most subjects. Yet here comes this old chap out of the

1:29.2

dust-covered ruins of Babylon to offer away, I had never heard of, to pay off my debts,

1:35.0

and at the same time acquire gold to jingle in my wallet. Pleasant thought, I say,

1:39.7

an interesting to prove whether a work as well nowadays has did an old Babylon. Mrs. Shrewsbury

1:45.2

and myself are planning to try out his plan upon our own affairs, which could be much improved.

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