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Eeden, Frederik van, 1860-1932

"The Bride of Dreams"

Promise
as little as possible, but show and prove by the result, and predict
nothing that you cannot immediately prove."
"Thus a non-political organization? An ethical corporation?"
"A business proposition, judge, a business proposition. But a great and
holy business. A business for making money, for accumulating as much
and as quickly as possible. The herd must eat, must have a good time,
must have abundance and must have its future assured. What kind of
business is indifferent. Every kind that is possible. If the group only
learns that it can obtain enough and much more even than before - much
greater wealth and much more happiness and content - by no longer
pilfering one another and squandering, but by intelligent mutual
agreement and by restriction of personal boundless liberty for the sake
of the whole common welfare."
"And your own part in this affair? How do you imagine that?"
"As the part of a match at a forest fire. For myself full of profound
satisfaction, for the outer world absolutely obscure.


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