We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destr...oyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Libert...y; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery. We complain of its oppression of the poor, and of its building up a new aristocracy on the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed. But the aristocracy of trade has no permanence, is not entailed, was the result of toil and talent, the result of merit of some kind, and is continually falling, like the waves of the sea, before new claims of the same sort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the f...irst the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind--men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh--who founded the English colonies in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd... have a talk show.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »