The Golden Bottle Or the Story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas
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] The whole thing is wrong. Barbarian man had no money : he knew nothing but "barter. " He swapped an arrow-head for an orange ; a sea-shell ornament for a piece of venison.
It was religion that rendered gold and silver valuable by making them sacred, dedicating them, to the worship of the sun and moon. The yellow metal was consecrated to the yellow god of day ; the white metal to the pale mistress of the night. They were in demand on all barbaric and civi- lized coasts, and therefore exchangea...ble for all things valuable to man. Hence they became money. But it was still and is yet merely a kind of barter. It is easier to handle one hundred dollars' worth of these compact metals than the same value of wheat or meat or cattle. And so to this hour the world's commerce is based on a swapping of commodi- ties ; the religious, metallic, prehistoric emblems for those iiiings that man has to eat or wear or use, and which are therefore real wealth. Let two men be shipwrecked on a desert island, one with a bag of gold and the other with a bag of flour.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
] The whole thing is wrong. Barbarian man had no money : he knew nothing but "barter. " He swapped an arrow-head for an orange ; a sea-shell ornament for a piece of venison.
It was religion that rendered gold and silver valuable by making them sacred, dedicating them, to the worship of the sun and moon. The yellow metal was consecrated to the yellow god of day ; the white metal to the pale mistress of the night. They were in demand on all barbaric and civi- lized coasts, and therefore exchangea...ble for all things valuable to man. Hence they became money. But it was still and is yet merely a kind of barter. It is easier to handle one hundred dollars' worth of these compact metals than the same value of wheat or meat or cattle. And so to this hour the world's commerce is based on a swapping of commodi- ties ; the religious, metallic, prehistoric emblems for those iiiings that man has to eat or wear or use, and which are therefore real wealth. Let two men be shipwrecked on a desert island, one with a bag of gold and the other with a bag of flour.
What to read after The Golden Bottle Or the Story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Donnelly Ignatius to read onlineMoreLess
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