A gallon of molasses would never be thought of as a measure of distance, but it would be just as reasonable to expect it to measure it as it is to expect a certain quantity of gold to measure the value of a horse.
Woodhull uses an analogy to illustrate the absurdity of using gold as a measure of value.
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