I never heard that this multiplicity tended toward “national disintegration.” France still continues one and indivisible; and I doubt if there would be any difference in this respect, even if there were a mint in every one of her eighty-six Departments.
Sumner argues that the existence of multiple mints does not threaten national unity, using France as a counterexample.
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