Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

Men will not always die quietly.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.