We cannot entirely dispense with this localizing quality, for our whole purpose is to transmute the unlimited, undifferentiated power, which subsists in the Eternal Substantive of Spirit, into a particular differentiated mode of action, which therefore implies a corresponding centralization.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
Everything pointed toward the centralization of the control of every railroad and steamboat line in this State and the adjacent Territory in the hands of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, presided over by Mr. Villard.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
The aversion of the people to the centralization of the banking business in the hands of a few of the great money powers made the establishment of a central bank out of the question.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews