I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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