Lust of the Ages

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• 1917
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The lust for gold is the lust of the ages. It wrecks the life of Richard Craig and his young wife, who rears her daughter, Lois, to dread the curse of love of riches. At college her essay on "The Lust of the Ages" wins the literary prize, and through the interest of the faculty is published. Byron Masters becomes engaged to Lois, but she learns that he, too, is cursed with the desire for wealth, and gives him his ring and a copy of her book, which is visualized as he reads it. Through the splendid spectacle he comes to realize that love is more than wealth, and that happiness is to be preferred above power and influence.