Read this excerpt from G. K. Chesterton's "The Fallacy of Success": Turning over a popular magazine, I find aand amusing example
. There is an article called "The Instinct that Makes People Rich." It is decorated in front with a formidable portrait of Lord Rothschild. There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only "instinct" I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as "the sin of avarice." That, however, is beside the present point. I wish to quote the following exquisite paragraphs as a piece of typical advice as to how to succeed. When the writer describes his experience of reading a magazine article, it is an example of which rhetorical device
The immediate result was that over 650 000 people were given the rights of voting, and numerous city-states were given the status of separate parliamentary boroughs.
