At this rate, you know, the end is inevitable.
Your debenture and bondholders will decide to foreclose; and if they do, you know, there is no power that can stop them.

Even with your limited knowledge of business you are probably aware that there is no higher power that can influence or control the holder of a first mortgage." "I fear so," said the Rev.Edward very sadly.
"Do you not think perhaps that some of the shortcoming lies with yourself ?" continued Mr.Furlong.

"Is it not possible that as a preacher you fail somewhat, do not, as it were, deal sufficiently with fundamental things as others do?
You leave untouched the truly vital issues, such things as the creation, death, and, if I may refer to it, the life beyond the grave." As a result of which the Reverend Edward preached a series of special sermons on the creation for which he made a special and arduous preparation in the library of Plutoria University.

He said that it had taken a million, possibly a hundred million years of quite difficult work to accomplish, and that though when we looked at it all was darkness still we could not be far astray if we accepted and held fast to the teachings of Sir Charles Lyell.

The book of Genesis, he said was not to be taken as meaning a day when it said a day, but rather something other than a mere day; and the word "light" meant not exactly light but possibly some sort of phosphorescence, and that the use of the word "darkness" was to be understood not as meaning darkness, but to be taken as simply indicating obscurity.