Verify Citation - Epilogue: Modern Civilization as the Destruction of Archaic Order

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Query: Epilogue: Modern Civilization as the Destruction of Archaic Order

Verify Citation

Quoted text:

“associated with trade (chrematistike), which is not productive of goods in the full sense but only through their exchange. … All those engaged in acquiring goods go on increasing their coin without limit… the end is sheer increase”

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See also the same query in Chapter 6.