Mammon (mam on)

[In ME. Mammon a; = F. Mammon = G. Mammon = Goth. Mamтто na = Ru . Mamona, And of Mammonaes moneye mad hym meny frendes. Piers Plowman (C), xi. 87. Ye cannot serve Mat. vi. 24. ... No man can serve two masters. God and mammon . Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent; admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy. Milton , P. L., i. 679. IMG:content-0154.png:[blocks in formation] Alas! if Hero-worship become Dilettantism, and all except Mammonism be a vain grimace, how much in this 3601