Excerpt from The Honest Man's Book of Finance and Politics, Showing the Cause and Cure of Artificial Poverty, Dearth of Employment, and Dullness of Trade: In Two Parts; Part I, Paper Money and Speculation, Usury and Increase; Part II, Theory of a Perfect Currency and a Perfect Government II. With such tools only as they could make of bone, or wood, or stone, and with a chemistry that hardly extended beyond the knowledge and use of fire, the Indians whom our fathers sup planted were able to provide themselves with the necessaries Of life, to marry youn and to enjoy more of ersonal and pecuniary Independ ence than we 0 whereas, were we as honest, as free from fictitious 'rights, ' and as honestly gov erned, as they were, our superiority in the arts would make us a hundred fold richer than they, and far more independent. 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.