Excerpt from Observations on the Depreciation of Money, and the State of Our Currency: With Sundry Relative Tables Iris observed by Dr Adam Smith, that, in all the different stages of wealth and improvement, we can judge better of the real value of silver by comparing it with corn, than by comparing it with any other commodity, or set of commodities. Labour and subsistence, indeed, as they are the original price paid for gold and silver, so in all the future transmissions thereof, they are the only real standards of the exchangeable value of these metals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.