One of the principal of these is a false monetary basis, a false representative standard of values, which is arbitrarily imposed upon the people, with no positive and absolute value within itself, except that which such arbitrary law gives it.
Woodhull critiques the arbitrary monetary standards imposed on society that lack intrinsic value.
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