Money (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Money<br><br>Money! an attractive title - a subject every man is interested in; and my object is to bring clearly before your mind how largely the success of English trade depends upon the currency laws in relation to our system of banking, that being the recognized medium for supplying borrowed capital, the life-blood upon which our large trade depends; and I hope to awaken within you a desire to understand this subject better than heretofore. That it is no easy task to rouse men of business to think, and that they cling most tenaciously to old customs, I am well aware; but the present times will compel them to hesitate, and ponder as to how trade is to be got and business is to be done; whereas hitherto they have let daily affairs float before them, content to seize hold of what they could as it passed them by, so long as they felt satisfied that the system in operation would last their time. It is this supineness, this ignorance of the delicacy and refinement of our banking and monetary system, that the future of commerce has so much to dread.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.