But suppositions are only true generally, and hence it came that promises to pay often exhausted the ability to pay, and here began the ills that must necessarily attend a false standard of values.
This quote critiques the reliability of promises to pay, suggesting that they can lead to financial instability.
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The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.
Can mouldering relics, or can fossiled creeds, Provide the quickening age her mighty needs?
What is seen is not the reality, but that through which the reality makes itself known.
In this way, labor may hope to arise from its present position of degradation to sit side by side with capital in all public and profitable positions and those of honor and trust.