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...financial disaster, it is awakening to the fact that there is still a God in the heavens. . . . May your Episcopate succeed in fanning this tiny spark of divine ambition in the hearts of thousands of your followers that they, too, may follow you into the land where prejudice, greed, hatred, pride and fear are unknown-into the Kingdom of Heaven...
...city from the mechanical inventions which are dangerous for their body or their mind, from the adulteration of thought as well as food, from the whims of the specialists in education, nutrition, morals, sociology, etc., from all progress inspired, not by the needs of the public, but by the greed or the illusions of their inventors. An institution of this sort would acquire enough knowledge to prevent the organic and mental deterioration of civilized nations. Its members should be given a position as highly considered, as free from political intrigues and from cheap publicity, as that of the justices...
...herself, devoting her tenacity, her resourcefulness, her frowsy full-blown beauty to the sordid ends of money and social position. No romance graced her relationship with the Prince. "On neither side was there any but ignoble passions . . . the lover's half senile lust . . . the mistress's vulgar greed for vulgar gains." Sophie was an example of a "common, inoffensive human weakness, snobbishness, provoking murder, most appalling of human crimes...
...working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned out to be the Mother of Compassion. His right arm faded into a scene of cruelty and destruction: machine gunners, cannon, the ogre Greed. Most gruesome bit of all was the Demon of Hate, also bisexual, slashing a man's throat...
Some 30 years ago a young lawyer from the progressive State of Wisconsin went to Washington, began his career working for the Interstate Commerce Commission. For two years he helped regulate the primordial greed of those early monsters of brutal business methods, the railroads. In 1908 he moved from the Interstate Commerce Commission to New York State's Public Service Commission, where he continued his effort to restrain the selfishness of utilities. In those two jobs he saw all the egregious forms of industrial skulduggery...