You see, you fellows have studied business, in a small way, but you have not studied social evolution at all.

You are in the midst of a transition stage now in economic evolution, but you do not understand it, and that's what causes all the confusion.

Why cannot you return?
Because you can't.

You can no more make water run up hill than can you cause the tide of economic evolution to flow back in its channel along the way it came.

Joshua made the sun stand still upon Gibeon, but you would outdo Joshua.