Prevailing Interest

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    As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)