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Another Strange Notion Pervading Whole Peoples Is That The State Has Money Of Its Own; And Nowhere Is This Absurdity More Firmly Fixed Than In America. The State Has No Money. It Produces Nothing. It Existence Is Purely Parasitic, Maintained By Taxation; That Is To Say, By Forced Levies On The Production Of Others. 'government Money,' Of Which One Hears So Much Nowadays, Does Not Exist; There Is No Such Thing.

The Business Of A Scientific School Is The Dissemination Of Useful Knowledge, And This Is A Noble Enterprise And Indispensable Withal; Society Can Not Exist Unless It Goes On.

It Is Unfortunately None Too Well Understood That, Just As The State Has No Money Of Its Own, So It Has No Power Of Its Own.

The Positive Testimony Of History Is That The State Invariably Had Its Origin In Conquest And Confiscation. No Primitive State Known To History Originated In Any Other Manner.

The Position Of Modern Science, As Far As An Ignorant Man Of Letters Can Understand It, Seems Not A Step In Advance Of That Held By Huxley And Romanes In The Last Century.