"In proportion to the extent that commerce assumed definite control of the State, money became more and more of a god whom all had to serve and bow down to. Heavenly Gods became more and more old-fashioned and were laid away in the corners to make room for the worship of mammon. And thus began a period of utter degeneration which became specially pernicious because it set in at a time when the nation was more than ever in need of an exalted idea, for a critical hour was threatening."
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Translated by James Murphy, London, 1939, p.200
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