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The Rev. Charles Gapworthy, B. A., sometime fellow and chaplain of St Lazarus Hys Hostel, Bermondsey, S. E., tells us in his "Political Economy for Schools" (chap. ii. "Capital," p. 28) that "economic force resides ultimately, not in material accumulation, but in a certain bold prevision of the mind. " The truth is but one more example of the power residing in what we denominate, in this country, the "Christian virtue of Hope."
The M'Korio Delta Development Company had been but an idea. That idea had even seemed, for some months, to languish, when the accession of Mr Burden's reputation, his Faith (which had made the formation of the syndicate possible), and, for that matter, his twenty-five thousand pounds, though they were but the outward sign of inward spiritual things, lent to the whole adventure body and life. Its aspect changed; it became concrete, as it were: a thing to be named, handled, criticised, combated, defended with passionate enthusiasm; a national Force in Being.