Excerpt from The History of Currency, 1252 to 1894As to the former purpose, there is no field of history so strewn with scientific comparative and prophetic) possibilities as economic history, and in economic history there is no department in which the study of the experience of other times and nations is more necessary and resultful, lesson-full, wisdom - full.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.