Excerpt from The Rights of the People in Money It is not the intention to give a scientific treatise on money, but to illustrate the com mon rights m 1t, and note and refute the sophisms of lending money for interest as they come up in the mind from the pages of fourty-four years of business experience, or as they are suggested by current events. There W111 be copious quotations from the works of learned authors and from lectures and newspaper articles to show the tendencyand direction of the learning of the world on the subject of money, with such comments on the same as may help to let the truth appear over all. It will be the especial effort to make every chapter and article as near as possible a complete argument in itself against lending money for interest. 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.