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the tortures of a surgeon's pulleys to a sprain which he has 

 mistaken for a dislocation. 



"A money, based on metals, or purely of metals, is sup- 

 posed to have a peculiar advantage in one point, inasmuch as 

 it provides an accumulation of gold against any natural or 

 political emergency. It must certainly have a tendency to 

 accumulate gold, and it makes many sacrifices and endures 

 many privations to secure this end. But then, the inconve- 

 nience is, that gold being accumulated because of its necessary 

 use, it cannot be spared when it is wanted for any emergency. 

 If we allow it to depart, whatever be our necessities, we put 

 a stop to the business depending on it ; derange the domestic 

 relations ; root up confidence ; produce panic and its whole 

 train of anxieties and miseries. More is lost by the cessation 

 of activity than the amount of its riches. The foundation 

 and instrument of industry are taken away, as when a man 

 cuts off the bough he sits upon, or a handicraftsman pawns 

 the tools of his daily employment. 



"If, in the nature of things, there is no remedy for these 

 evils, and the circulation of money must be necessarily round 

 an axis of mischievous mutation, nothing woidd remain but 

 patient endurance between the tossing from hollow prosperity 

 to real calamity, and, as it was lately recommended, we should 

 sit out the crisis, as a man under an attack of gout, when he 

 is advised, that, to rim its course, will be the best and only 

 issue of his malady. 



"If a country had no foreign trade or connexions, its cur- 

 rency might remain equable as the level of a lake ; but, with 

 large interests and concerns abroad, the metals, equally current 

 in other nations, will undulate as the flow and refiow of the 

 tides. Nature provides creeks and harbours, and they are 

 navigable by the same swelling waters that flow to all lands; 

 but though a great convenience to seafaring merchandise, they 

 have not the safety and facilities of the docks and basins 

 formed by art and civilization. The vessel at home is much 



