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Our currency has the stamp of legality at home, but it is worthless abroad.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner critiques the value of American currency in international markets.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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