all-stimulating

Updated: May 9, 2025

Although its ideal was money, and although it set up the acquisition of wealth as the all-stimulating incentive and goal of human effort, it viewed sullenly and enviously the development of an established magnate class which could look haughtily and dictatorially down upon it even as it constantly looked down upon the working class.

Gustavus Myers - Great Fortunes from Railroads