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The narrator reveals that Phineas is an extremely charming daredevil who feels, or at least admits, no fear.

Source: A Separate Peace by John Knowles, chapter 1, page 13. Published by Scribner, New York 1996:

No one but Phineas could think up such a crazy idea. He of course saw nothing the slightest bit intimidating about it. He wouldn't, or he wouldn't admit it if he did. Not Phineas. "What I like best about this tree," he said in that voice of his, the equivalent in sound of a hypnotist's eyes, "what I like is that it's such a cinch!"

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Competition plays an important role in regulating the economy, but as John Kenneth Galbraith points out, during the nineteenth century, "control over economic life seemed to be passing into fewer hands," leading at least one critic of capitalism, Karl Marx, to predict the end of the free market system.

Source: The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, chapter 4, page 36. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York 1998:

In addition, there was the gnawing doubt as to whether competition, in fact, existed. As the nineteenth century wore along, both firms and fortunes grew. Control over economic life seemed to be passing into fewer hands—a development which was heralded by Marx as marking the system's ultimate collapse.

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