114 THE EFFECTS OF, ETC. CHAP. XX. 



it was the same in the century between the years 

 1700 and 1800, though the mines yielded still 

 more. It is to fix attention on this great change 

 that such an extended view of the several classes 

 of society who were interested in it has been taken. 

 Its effect has been felt in every quarter of the 

 globe, and has had an influence on the prosperity 

 of the whole civilized race of man not by the 

 wealth that the gold and silver amounted to, but 

 by the stimulus it began to administer to every 

 branch of industry, by the impulse it communicated 

 to physical, mechanical, legislative, judicial, and 

 even moral investigations, and by the attachment it 

 inspired to the sound principles which introduced 

 legal, civil, and political freedom. 



