Their maxim that demand governed supply, and supply would always meet demand, referred in no way to the demand representing human need, but wholly to… - Edward Bellamy

Would it not have startled the old economists to hear that the secret of the most efficient system of wealth production was conformity on a national scale to the ethical idea of equal treatment for all embodied by Jesus Christ in the golden rule?

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

To have criticised the profit system would have been flat blasphemy. The learned men called it a problem--the problem of the unemployed--and gave it up as a conundrum. It was a favorite way our ancestors had of dodging questions which they could not answer without attacking vested interests to call them problems and give them up as insolvable mysteries of Divine Providence.