One statesman, however eminent, might err in judgment.

But half a score of statesmen, all of one mind! One must accept their verdict." Mary smiled.

"But why shouldn't the good newspaper proprietor hurry up and become a multi-proprietor ?" she suggested.

"Why don't you persuade Lord Sutcliffe to buy up three or four papers, before they're all gone ?" "Because I don't want the Devil to get hold of him," answered Greyson.
"You've got to face this unalterable law," he continued.

"That power derived from worldly sources can only be employed for worldly purposes.
The power conferred by popularity, by wealth, by that ability to make use of other men that we term organization--sooner or later the man who wields that power becomes the Devil's servant.