Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fifty-Cent Dollar: A Brief History of the Financial Agitation, Legislation and Condition of the United States, From 1890 to 1895
Common people were taught that the money question was beyond their ken in every particular, that it was an abstruge and exact science - some thing never before taught by human experience, his tory or the schools. Aristotle had said, more than 2000 years before, that money exists not by nature, but by law, and this had not been seriously con troverted during the intervening centuries, until dawn of the period mentioned.
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