Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. 2 Mr. Locke remarks a diftin 'tion between money and other moveable goods. All other moveable goods, he fays, are of f.) confumable a nature that the wealth which confil'ts in them cannot be much depended on, and a nation which abounds in them one year may, without any exportation, but merely by their own wafie and extravagance, be in great want of them the next. Money, on the contrary, is a fteady friend, which, though it may travel about from hand to hand, yet, if it can be kept from going out of the country, is not very liable to be waited and con fumed. Gold and filver, therefore, are, according to him, the molt folid and fubftantial part of the moveable wealth of a nation, and to multiply thore metals ought, he thinks, upon that account, to be the great obje t of its political oeconomy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.