Re: "The civilization of wealth," CNT, Sept. 8).
Going by Webster's Third New International Dictionary, it is very obvious that wealth cannot be civilized--it is only people who can be civilized. That doesn't mean that wealth cannot be used in helping to bring about civilization, but that is not one and the same as the civilization of wealth.
Possibly, Martin Luther King Jr. expressed a hope consistent with the dictionary definitions of civilization as well as anybody, when ...