"The plutocrat" 



In my wanderings I once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who ate of
the earth and drank of 
the sea incessantly. And for a long while I watched him. Then I approached him and said,
"Have you never enough; 
is your hunger never satisfied and your thirst never quenched?" 

And he answered saying, "Yes, I am satisfied, nay, I am weary of eating and drinking; but I am
afraid that 
tomorrow there will be no more earth to eat and no more sea to drink."