It is felt that to buy simply in order to sell againbrings out many unsocial human qualities; it makes a man seek to enhanceprofits and falsify values, and so the Samurai are forbidden to buy orsell on their own account or for any employer save the State, unless bysome process of manufacture they change the nature of the commodity (amere change in bulk or packing does not suffice), and they are forbiddensalesmanship and all its arts.
Everything had been made as sane and obvious and properas a lunatic's... read more
