"At the same time, radical Pelagian tracts, such as the de divitiis--the relentlessly argued "Treatise on Riches"--had advocated the total renunciation of property by the rich.27 The author of this tract extended his plea for total renunciation to include a consequential denunciation of the existence of wealth in the first place: Tolle divitem et pauperem non invenies (Get rid of the rich and you will find no poor) was one of his many provocative slogans."