They seemed to treat it as a purely private transaction, out of which they might get all the money they could, without any obligation to carry out the act according to its spirit, or even according to its letter, if they could only do so without being detected.
Hoar describes the unethical mindset of those involved in the Credit Mobilier scandal.
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