What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?