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A power can be overthrown only by another power, not by principles, and no power that can confront money is left but this one. Money is overthrown and abolished only by blood. Life is alpha and omega, the cosmic onflow in microcosmic form.1
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Glicksberg, C.I. (1972). The Call of Conscience. In: Literature and Society. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4851-3_12
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