"Together, they helped to produce such diverse fruits as the utilitarian ethics, the utopianism of Fourier (and of Adam Smith), the belief that the pursuit of private profit would best assure the public abundance (capitalism), and the closely related belief, often expressed in the eighteenth century, that men who sought personal fame and immortal glory would perform acts highly useful to society (entrepreneurs, Ayn Rand individuals, fascist superhumans)."
Palmer, p 200 (my notes in parentheses)
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