I think this comment can be taken as a brief summary of the long article. The article includes this passage, which mirrors this idea: >It is by selling, I rep

I think this comment can be taken as a brief summary of the long article. The article includes this passage, which mirrors this idea: >It is by selling, I repeat, and by selling alone—whether it be by the sale of property or the sale of the use of our talents or of our land—that we acquire the credits by which we liberate ourselves from debt, and it is by his selling power that a prudent banker estimates his client’s value as a debtor.