This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...he suggest to legislators to prohibit it, or, as more rational, to reduce it to an inconsiderable quantity for the land-men P It would naturally be as difficult to reduce interest to an inconsiderable quantity, as to prohibit it; for when it was so small as to be inconsiderable, there would be no, or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...he suggest to legislators to prohibit it, or, as more rational, to reduce it to an inconsiderable quantity for the land-men P It would naturally be as difficult to reduce interest to an inconsiderable quantity, as to prohibit it; for when it was so small as to be inconsiderable, there would be no, or but little, opposition to taking it off altogether; that is, to prohibit it. The learned author appears to have been dreadfully confused, by the question of interest on money. If he could have consented to let the light of the Dir/z'1ze Trut/1 rest upon the question as it is in the Word of God, it would have enlightened his path so that he might have been able to travel in a consistent course. But when he started off with the intimation that that light was not sufficient to lead civil law, he might be expected to unsettle the foundation of his edifice as he did. He started out to excuse and justify lending money for interest. There is no foundation for reason in that direction, as his staggering shows. He was bold enough; at the first bound he vaulted into the position that money made by the government to be the sign of value, cannot be bought with the things that it is the sign of. He conveys the impression that the people have no right to expect money to circulate in that way, but must expect to borrow it, to be paid back with interest. From this irrational position, it could not be expected that he would advance rationally.. Besides the error that the writer of the "Spirit of Laws" makes, in taking it for granted that the holders of money have a right to lend it for interest, there are two other errors that are very generally committed, in considering the business of lendiing for interest. The first is, that the lenders of...
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