„I see that the produce of man's toil passes more and more from the labouring people to those who do no labour, and that the pyramid of the social structure is, as it were, reconstructed so that the foundation stones pass to the top, and the rapidity of this movement increases almost in geometrical progression.

I see that what is happening is as though in an ant-hill the society of ants were to lose its sense of a common law , and some ants began to carry the produce of toil from the bottom of the heap to the top, ever narrowingf the base and enlarging the top and so compelling the other ants to shift from the base to the top.

I see that the ideal of an industrious life has been replaced by the ideal of a magic purse."