Excerpt from The Great Power: Its Origin, Use, and Influence; A Brief Explanation of the Necessity for Monetary Reform
Paradoxical as it may sound, money is one of those peculiar subjects which, although continually engaging a large share of men's thoughts, is nevertheless at the same time very widely neglected. Whilst practically every member of civilised society is actively endeavouring to accumulate wealth in some form or another, not one in a thousand troubles about the history, laws, or uses of the wonderful device without which not only would wealth creation be impossible, but civilisation itself would cease to be. The consequences of this neglect in the past have been most serious. Every conceivable method of trickery and fraud has been played on the people - their ignorance of the simplest facts concerning the functions of money rendering them the easy prey of both the governing and money-lending classes.
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