Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men! — Thomas Carlyle · Skopia

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Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!

Chartism · 1840

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 6.

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