Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

Past and Present, Book 3, ch. 10 “Plugson of Undershot” (1843)
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