An honest money system is the only alternative.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.