If he did publish, how could he tell virtuous bankers in State Street that moral and absolute principles of abstract truth, such as theirs, had nothing to do with the matter, and that they had better let it alone?

如果他真的发表了，他怎么能告诉 State Street 道德和绝对真理的道德和绝对原则与此事无关，他们最好放手不管？