Consequence is tyrannical to its tyrant.

How could a civilized slave extrapolate the philosophy of spiritual savages?

It is unwise to pay too much but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was supposed to do. The common law of business balance prevents paying a little and getting a lot. It cannot be done. If you deal with the loweste bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a slave. Because living constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected through the unconscious with their psychology. No one can shield himself from such an influence.