Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: issued are the only legitimate paper money, and the nation should watch jealously any increase thereof, unless warranted by an increase of gold in the coffers of the bank ; or, as you will perceive further on, my opinion is that the state alone should issue notes ; and that all bankers ought to have the right to obtain the notes they require, by depositing with the government national or other securities of the full value of the same ; every note to be stamped when issued in proportion to its value ; and that notes should be issued for one pound, two pounds, three pounds, four pounds, as well as for five pounds, etc., as at present. WHAT IS MONEY? The reply of most will be : That something which raises us above those small schemes and struggling in which the mass of the people have to pass their existence ; that something which enables us to feel secure of our position, which enables us to be uppermost, to feel ourselves on the highest round of the social ladder, and therefore worshipped by all of us, because we hate the idea of being inferior to anybody. Money is a power whose sway Angel forms adore, And the lost obey, Weeping evermore. It will do us all good to understand money better, and talk about it more than we are in the habit of doing. It is the key to a man's character how he talks of money. Most people treat money as if it were a sin to mention it; it is a subject rarely talked about in society—or theyhug it to themselves as a bosom friend. It needs a well balanced brain to understand and treat money at its real value, and you can detect the weakness or strength of a man by the way he talks about money. Some will speak of it as if happiness consisted in possessing it; whereas happiness is not in the money, but how the man will use it. The secret of ha... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.