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The extension of bank-notes from three to five hundred millions, which I propose, will extend the banking system where it is now needed.
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Sumner advocates for an increase in the amount of bank-notes to enhance the banking system.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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