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“He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion… In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of money-changers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal.”