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Excerpt from The Financial Power of the Empire
Six or seven months ago the world had achieved at least a mechanical unity. The merchant in New York or Pekin could telegraph money or messages in a moment to any part of the globe. Almost at any time. On any day. One could buy transportation to any part of the civilized world. Year after year. With but slight interruptions, this process had been going forward; and year after year the boundaries of what we call civilization were being extended. Then, with paralysing sud denese. This artificial structure of commerce. Trade and finance was submerged as completely as Herculaneum was blotted out by the ashes of Vesuvius.
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