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The national character "is degenerated into a system of stock-jobbing, extortion and usury....
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The national character "is degenerated into a system of stock-jobbing, extortion and usury....”
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Beveridge critiques the moral decline of the national character in his time, emphasizing economic corruption.
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