"I'm not like him, you know. I like Muggle science and history. Don't you think the development of science in Muggle society is well worth learning from for the wizarding world?"
"Several centuries ago, when the Muggle elites launched the witch hunts, the Muggle lower classes were actually worse off than the witches everyone condemned. Their entire lives were controlled by the aristocracy and the Church. From birth to death, every last drop of value was squeezed out of them."
"Not until science and technology emerged. Technology, machines, and inventions nourished the rise of capitalism, while capitalists used science to tear apart the shadow cast jointly by royal and divine authority—no one guided this transformation; it happened naturally."
"Driven by profit, they took the initiative to destroy the old order. During the First Industrial Revolution, the astonishing profits of industrial goods and the demand for land and labor for factories caused feudal manors, which had endured for a thousand years, to go bankrupt within decades."
"During the Second Industrial Revolution, Muggles likewise abandoned steam engines of their own accord and embraced the arrival of the electrical age, followed by the Third Revolution now underway. Were Muggles so proactive because they possessed such high ideals?"
Vaughn slowly shook his head, answering his own question. "No. It was because of profit. Look, from the first steam engine entering operation in the eighteenth century until now, for more than two hundred years, even without anyone pushing them, Muggles have never stopped innovating. Profit drove all of it."
"In my view, magic is no less capable than science of generating profit. Not to mention anything else—just the miraculous effects of potions alone would be enough to drive Muggles mad."
"I call Grindelwald an idiot for precisely this reason. The Muggles' First and Second Industrial