In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.