If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every… - Edward Bellamy

When any new idea was suggested in religion, in medicine, in science, in economics, in sociology, and indeed in almost any field of thought, the first question which the learned body having charge of that field and making a living out of it would ask itself was not whether the idea was good and true and would tend to the general welfare, but how it would immediately and directly affect the set of doctrines, traditions, and institutions, with the prestige of which their own personal interests were identified.

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.

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?