"Thieves, robbers, murderers, swindlers are an example of what one must not do, and they inspire in men's minds a horror of wrongdoing. But men who commit acts of theft, of robbery, of murder, of chastisement, and gild them with some religious, scientific, or liberal justification-who do it as landowners, merchants, or manufacturers-appeal to others to imitate their acts; they injure not only those who suffer under it, but thousands and millions of men whose morals they ruin by destroying the distinction between good and evil in those men's minds...."