In brief, all this Mammon-Gospel, of Supply-and-demand, Competition, Laissez-faire, and Devil take the hindmost, begins to be one of the shabbiest Gospels ever preached on Earth; or altogether the shabbiest.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

Past and Present, Book 3, ch. 9 “Working Aristocracy” (1843)
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