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You can no more make water run up hill than can you cause the tide of economic evolution to flow back in its channel along the way it came . Joshua made the sun stand still upon Gibeon , but you would outdo Joshua . You would make the sun go backward in the sky . You would have time retrace its steps from noon to morning . `` In the face of labor-saving machinery , of organized production , of the increased efficiency of combination , you would set the economic sun back a whole generation or so to the time when there were no great capitalists , no great machinery , no railroads -- a time when a host of little capitalists warred with each other in economic anarchy , and when production was primitive , wasteful , unorganized , and costly . Believe me , Joshua 's task was easier , and he had Jehovah to help him . But God has forsaken you small capitalists .