A while ago Michael asked me the source of this quote. I found a source on the following web page for John Ralston Saul's on "Corporatism: lack of democracy and legitimization of corruption"
http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_500/desantis514/JRSaul.html -- Dr. W.R. Needham Associate Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Department of Economics 200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Tel: 519-888-4567 ext: 3949 Fax: 519-725-0530 web: http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/fac-needham.html ["We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." - Herman Melville]
