Excerpt from Cause of and Cure for Hard Times: Containing a Definition of the Attributes and Qualities Indispensable in Money as a Medium of Commerce; And Also, an Investigation of the Effects of the Banking System

IN proportion to the weakness of men's minds, they become susceptible of delusions of every kind.

By Whatever means the imbecility is produced, whee ther pristine ignorance, luxury, or superstition, i material, the effects thence resulting are the same.

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