In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
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