1. See Peter Weingart, “Struggle for Existence: Selection and Retention of a Metaphor” in this volume.
2. See Alborn, “Economic Man, Economic Machine: Images of Circulation in the Victorian Money Market,” forthcoming in P. Mirowski (ed.), Markets Red in Tooth and Claw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). All this holds equally for intellectual crises in, for example, a scientific discipline undergoing a paradigm shift.
3. Morning Chronicle, February 9, 1825, cited in Bishop Carleton Hunt, The Development of the Business Corporation in England 1800–1867 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936), p. 38
4. Leone Levi, The Gilbart Lectures on Banking (London, 1875), p. 94.
5. Robert Young, Darwin’s Metaphor: Nature’s Place in Victorian Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).