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Quote #10
"Will there be never any peace? Will there be no rest?" Mrs. Gould whispered. "I thought that we——" "No!" interrupted the doctor. "There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle. Mrs. Gould, the time approaches when all that the Gould Concession stands for shall weigh as heavily upon the people as the barbarism, cruelty, and misrule of a few years back." (III.11.45-46)
In this exchange, the doctor calls out the elephant in the room, noting that a love of "material interests" and expediency is not the same thing as acting out of morals and principles—which means conflict will be on the horizon again soon enough, in his view. He suggests that the Goulds' days of holding power with the mine are numbered.