There Is No Harm In Being Sometimes

Once We Allow Ourselves To Be Disobedient To The Test Of An Accountant's Profit, We Have Begun To Change Our Civilization.

Unlike Physics, For Example, Such Parts Of The Bare Bones Of Economic Theory As Are Expressible In Mathematical Form Are Extremely Easy Compared With The Economic Interpretation Of The Complex And Incompletely Known Facts Of Experience, And Lead One A Very Little Way Towards Establishing Useful Results.

They Offer Me Neither Food Nor Drink - Intellectual Nor Spiritual Consolation... [conservatism] Leads Nowhere; It Satisfies No Ideal; It Conforms To No Intellectual Standard, It Is Not Safe, Or Calculated To Preserve From The Spoilers That Degree Of Civilization Which We Have Already Attained.

In Truth, The Gold Standard Is Already A Barbarous Relic.

Thus Those Reformers, Who Look For A Remedy By Creating Artificial Carrying-costs For The Money Through The Device Of Requiring Legal-tender Currency To Be Periodically Stamped At A Prescribed Cost In Order To Retain Its Quality As Money, Or In Analogous Ways, Have Been On The Right Track; And The Practical Value Of Their Proposals Deserves Consideration.