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Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.
john james cowperthwaite— March 30, 1962, page 133.
When a man make of his personnal interests the mainspring of his life and he is greedy to make use of everything that can benefit him, he naturally enters into conflict with other persons, acting also in their interests, hence the disagreements that can become a hundred years old, and drive whole generations to a mutual hate.
african spir— p. 42 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
It is energy the central element of which is will that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is the main-spring of what is called force of character, and the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles— Samuel Smiles, Character, Chapter V.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than pausing at times to reflect on these facts .
— Clarence S. Day, in This Simian World, Library of Alexandria, p.29
