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Page 129 - The effective currency of the country depends upon the quickness of circulation, and the number of exchanges performed in a given time, as well as upon its numerical amount ; and all the circumstances which have a tendency to quicken or to retard the rate of circulation render the same amount of currency more or less adequate to the wants of trade.
Page 129 - Bankers' drafts in the common payments of London ; the contrivance of bringing all such drafts daily to a common receptacle, where they are balanced against each other ; the intermediate agency of Bill-brokers ; and several other changes in the practice of London Bankers, are to the same effect, of rendering it unnecessary for them to keep so large a deposit of money as formerly.
Page 425 - On the Brain of a Bushwoman ; and on the Brains of two Idiots, of European Descent ;"
Page 129 - ... the use of the circulating medium. Your committee are of opinion, that the improvements which have taken place of late years in this country, and particularly in the district of London, with regard to the use and economy of money among bankers, and in the mode of adjusting commercial payments, must have had a much greater effect than has hitherto been ascribed to them, in rendering the same sum adequate to a much greater amount of trade and payments than formerly. Some of those improvements will...
Page 142 - Annals of American Academy, March, 1893; John B. Henderson's Plan, New York Tribune, July 3, 1893 ; The Nation, " Capital will come from Europe if the United States Government will retire from the Banking Business,
Page 194 - Equal quantities of labour will at distant times be purchased more nearly with equal quantities of corn, the subsistence of the labourer, than with equal quantities of gold and silver, or perhaps of any other commodity.
Page 129 - A much smaller amount is required in a high state of public credit than when alarms make individuals call in their advances and provide against accidents by hoarding, and in a period of commercial security and private confidence, than when mutual distrust discourages pecuniary arrangements for any distant time. But, above all, the same amount of currency will be more or less adequate, in proportion to the skill which the great money-dealers possess in managing and economizing the use of the circulating...
Page 412 - Das Hirngewicht des Menschen. Bonn, 1890. 1901 BOLK, L. Uber das Gehirn von Orang-outang. Petrus Camper. Nederl. Bijdragen tot d. Anat., Bd. i, S. 25, Amsterdam, 1901. 1909 Beitrage zur Affenanatomie. Zeitschr. f. Morph. u. Anthropol., Bd. xii, S. 141, 1909. 1900 BOLTON, J. The exact Histological Localization of the Visual Area of the Human Cerebral Cortex.
Page 175 - The Course of Wages in the United States since 1840," Publications of American Statistical Association, pp. 469-501 ; LA Garnett, " Has Gold Risen"? " Forum, January, 1895; Report of International Monetary Conference, 1892; White. Banking, pp. 76-105 (the Brussels Conference) ; Reports of the Royal Commission on Gold and Silver, " Tables of Prices " ; Soetbeer's tables in Atkinson's Report; Rogers and Giffen at Conference of 1881, p. 349; Horton, Silver Pound, ch. II, "The Fall of Prices,
Page 276 - It is indeed a misfortune for free men, who have transmitted their powers to you, to see themselves reduced to the cruel necessity of bathing their hands in the blood of conspirators ; but the time for dissimulation is past, the plot is discovered, the hour of vengeance is come, and blood shall flow, or the tree of liberty which we are going to plant shall flourish in peace...