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           Throughoutmen’shistory,moneywasalwaysseizedbylootersofonebrandoranother,whosenameschanged,butwhosemethodremainedthesame:toseizewealthbyforceandtokeeptheproducersbound,demeaned,defamed,deprivedofhonor.Thatphraseabouttheevilofmoney,whichyoumouthwithsuchrighteousrecklessness,comesfromatimewhenwealthwasproducedbythelaborofslaves—slaveswhorepeatedthemotionsoncediscoveredbysomebody’smindandleftunimprovedforcenturies.Solongasproductionwasruledbyforce,andwealthwasobtainedbyconquest,therewaslittletoconquer.Yetthroughallthecenturiesofstagnationandstarvation,menexaltedthelooters,asaristocratsofthesword,asaristocratsofbirth,asaristocratsofthebureau,anddespisedtheproducers,asslaves,astraders,asshopkeepers—asindustrialists.

           "Tothegloryofmankind,therewas,forthefirstandonlytimeinhistory,acountryofmoney—andIhavenohigher,morereverenttributetopaytoAmerica,forthismeans:acountryofreason,justice,freedom,production,achievement.Forthefirsttime,man’smindandmoneyweresetfree,andtherewerenofortunes-by-conquest,butonlyfortunes-by-work,andinsteadofswordsmenandslaves,thereappearedtherealmakerofwealth,thegreatestworker,thehighesttypeofhumanbeing—theself-mademan—theAmericanindustrialist.