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The Larger The Unit Of Capital Present, The Easier The Transaction Called Emission Of Credit. Centralized Lending Of This Kind (which Is Today Universal) Actively Promotes The Absorption Of The Small Man By The Great, The Reduction Of Small Property Owners To A Proletarian Condition.

It Has Long Been Recognized By Public Men Of All Kinds. . . That Statistics Come Under The Head Of Lying, And That No Lie Is So False Or Inconclusive As That Which Is Based On Statistics.

Any Subject Can Be Made Interesting, And Therefore Any Subject Can Be Made Boring.

Even If The Wealth And Power Be Well Distributed Throughout A Community, Its Members Will Not Be Happy Unless They Are Inwardly So, And Obviously Where The Distribution Is Bad, Where The Few Have A Vast Superfluity And The Many Are Consumed By Anxiety Or Want, Or Where A Few Controllers Can Exercise Their Will Over The Many, Society Has Failed, Even Though Its Total Wealth And Power Be Increased.

Great Artistic Talent In Any Direction... Is Hardly Inherent To The Man. It Comes And Goes; It Is Often Possessed Only For A Short Phase In His Life; It Hardly Ever Colors His Character As A Whole And Has Nothing To Do With The Moral And Intellectual Stuff Of The Mind And Soul. Many Great Artists, Perhaps Most Great Artists, Have Been Poor Fellows Indeed, Whom To Know Was To Despise.