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Excerpt from The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, With Its Various Modes of AdjustmentMoney, by which we intend coins of gold or silver, is neither a standard of value, a measure of value, nor a representative of value.The precious metals are commodities of value, and do not, of course, lose that quality, though they gain another, by being coined. They become, by coinage and the law of legal tender, a standard o...

Excerpt from Politics for American Christians: A Word Upon Our Example as a Nation The topics we introduce are but loosely touched. We but converse upon the subjects, - Our Position in reference to Foreign Politics, The Rewards of Labor, The Relations Of industry with Trade, Public Education, Elections, Legislation, Legislative Bodies, and, more especially, the Moral Position of our National Legislature. These are topics of vast moment. They ...

Excerpt from The South: A Letter From a Friend in the North, With Special Reference to the Effects of Disunion Upon Slavery A Native of Virginia, long resident in Pennsylvania, I have for nearly thirty years been an attentive listener to the various discussions which have arisen between the South and the North. The class to which I belong is perhaps better able to keep balanced minds on some of those exciting topics than those who are more im...

Excerpt from New Themes for the Protestant Clergy: Creeds Without Charity, Theoloy Without Humanity, and Protestantism Without Christianity IN Offering the following pages to the public, we fur nish no formal or complete treatise upon any Of the topics embraced. We have re¿ected long and earnestly upon them, as they arose incessantly in the course of kindred studies, until we became painfully convinced that they were neglected, and that the t...

Excerpt from Position of Christianity in the United States: In Its Relations With Our Political Institutions, and Specially With Reference to Religious Instruction in the Public SchoolsWe furnish the following pages with a View to dispel some of the doubts which hang over the sub ject, and with a hope of inviting others into a field of politico-religious literature which cannot be ade quately explored but by many minds in many years.About the ...

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Excerpt from The Five Cotton States and New York, or Remarks Upon the Social and Economical Aspects of the Southern Political CrisisIf such topics as these cannot, in this country, be dis cussed without limitation, and if decisions cannot be reached which should command the assent of all, the hope of maintaining free governments might as well be given up at once, for questions as important and semons must be met in every country, in point of f...

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An invaluable, 400-year-old lost Sleeping Cat Scroll and an Ivory Monkeys statue are sought by both Japanese and New York crime syndicates and shady art dealers. Small time smuggler Jack Tocklin sees the score-of-a-lifetime ... if only he can stay alive to claim it. Japan, Japanese history and art collecting. THEN: Four-hundred years ago, a beautiful, virgin peasant girl was taken from her parents and given to the Sultan of Patani by the Shogu...

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The hectic front of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hides an unseen back of the museum that is also bustling. This book presents and celebrates the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's exceptional anthropology collections. It includes 123 full-colour images to highlight the museum's cultural treasures.

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