Flicked through and found this bit: "But there is a more thorough humbug than any of these enterprises or systems. The greatest humbug of all is the man who be

Flicked through and found this bit: "But there is a more thorough humbug than any of these enterprises or systems. The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes — or pretends to believe — that everything and everybody are humbugs.... Religion he thinks one of the smartest business dodges extant, a first-rate investment, and by all odds the most respectable disguise that a lying or swindling business man can wear. Honour he thinks is a sham. Honesty he considers a plausible word to flourish in the eyes of the greener portion of our race, as you would hold out a cabbage-leaf to coax a donkey. What people want, he thinks, or says he thinks, is something good to eat, something good to drink, fine clothes, luxury, laziness, wealth. If you can imagine a hog's mind in a man's body — sensual, greedy, selfish, cruel, cunning, sly, coarse, yet stupid, short-sighted, unreasoning, unable to comprehend anything except what concerns the flesh, you have your man." Blushes in economist...