There would be no lethargy of monopoly. But the main point is the Archimedean money-power that would be brought to bear. You see, this doing good to the world by driblets amounts to just nothing. I am for doing good to the world with a will. I am for doing good to the world once for all and having done with it.
People here have no conception of it.
Of a frosty morning in Hong Kong, pauper pagans are found dead in the streets like so many nipped peas in a bin of peas. A pinch of snuff to the kraken. I am for sending ten thousand missionaries in a body and converting the Chinese en masse within six months of the debarkation. The thing is then done, and turn to something else. I am for voting to them twenty thousand bullocks and one hundred thousand barrels of flour to begin with.