and all the world was gone to hell , and benign faces on currencies were innocuous to the multipliers and orders of magnitude applied to them to provide for a simple loaf of bread , or the wars waged so that faces on this side of the globe could subsist on the pollution and slavery and penury of the faces on the other , all with the benign faces on the currencies standing in as surrogates for the actual transaction of human soul with human soul , the tyrant and the sufferer , the prophet and the profits and the ministers of oil in dresses and the polished prigs in brussels in their narrow suits and the statists of all stripes planning for a happier world always centered around a concept of fewer , cleaner , holier people like themselves .