Excerpt from The Common Sense, the Mathematics, and the Metaphysics of Money It is logically impossible to understand mono metalism and bi-metalism without understanding money, and to understand money in the light of real and not illusory facts, it is necessary to be able to give, not a. Single answer, but answers which are not contradictory, to the complex ques tion, What is money To give these answers correctly, is to show or demonstrate the science of money, and in order to do this and not merely attempt to do it, it is essential not only to take into account all the facts and give each of them its proper weight, without attempting to explain away any of them, but to look diligently for those masked facts which the money sphinx has veiled, and which nothing but the most careful and patient search will discover. 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.