Ye tradeful Merchants, that, with weary toil, Do seek most precious things to make your gain,...
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
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The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
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They deceive themself and thus us; merchants and tycoons of the world. Evil has gone from bad to worse for a worthless reward.
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The merchants and company have long laughed at transcendentalism, higher laws, etc., crying, 'None of your moonshine,' as if they were anchore...
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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
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The merchants and company have long laughed at transcendentalism, higher laws, etc., crying, "None of your moonshine," as if they were anchore...
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Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth....
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