Mysterious Force – D. H. Lawrence

And meanwhile, there is one mysterious Force which is under no control. A mysterious Force, like a Secret Society spreading through all nations and controlled by no nation. This is the Force of Finance. A few hundred men on the face of the earth, with huge sums of money behind them, exert their wills and minds in order that money shall and must go on producing money, no matter what lives or loss of honour it may cost. Here is a great irreponsible Force which has escaped from the control of true human power, and which is likely to work enormous evil.
(D.H. Lawrence, Movements in European History, Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0192851136, ISBN-13: 978-0192851130)