History does not carry us to a time when gold was not the recognized standard for the measurement of every other kind of property, and that not by one tribe or people only, but by mankind in every clime and in every stage of savageness or of civilization.
Boutwell reflects on the historical significance of gold as a universal standard of value across civilizations.
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