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David Geeraerts, CAL Manager

David Geeraerts

Computer Applications Lab (CAL) Manager
The Evergreen State College
2700 evergreen Parkway NW
LAB II 1217
Olympia, WA 98505
360-867-5163
geeraerd@evergreen.edu



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"Cast your gaze upon the capital of your empire, and you will find two classes of citizens.The one, glutted with riches, displays an opulence which offends those it does not corrupt; the other, mired in destitution, worsens its condition by wearing a mask of posterity which it does not possess: for such is the power of gold (when it is become the god of a nation, stand in the stead of all talent, takes the place of every virtue) that one must either have wealth or feign to have it."


L'Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, 1770









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