The facts regarding this question are that people have become wedded to the idea that gold is the only possible thing that can be made money, while all their practice has been that it is the least entitled to the name of money of anything they have ever used as such.
This quote critiques the common belief that gold is the only legitimate form of money, advocating for broader definitions.
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