Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
Society's revenge matched its fright.
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