It illustrates what Ruskin calls the "morbid" character of modern business that the history of its most brilliant episodes must be studied in the ves… - Henry Demarest Lloyd

If our civilization is destroyed, as Macaulay predicted, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. Our great money-makers have sprung in one generation into seats of power kings do not know.

Nature is rich; but everywhere man, the heir of nature, is poor.

The yacht of the millionaire incorporates a million days' labor which might have been given to abolishing the slums, and every day it runs the labor of hundreds of men is withdrawn from the production of helpful things for humanity.