ERIC ROLL

The merchant created the industrialist.

Capitalism had been more revolutionary than any previous social system. It had swept away without scruples old institutions and modes of thought, if they were found to stand in its way.

[There is a] desire of individuals, particularly business men, to create privileged positions for themselves

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.

Capitalism had been more revolutionary than any previous social system. It had swept away without scruples old institutions and modes of thought, if they were found to stand in its way.

[There is a] desire of individuals, particularly business men, to create privileged positions for themselves

The merchant created the industrialist.

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.