ABSTRACT
The imperfect or completely false ideas held until our time concerning the functions of money have given birth to or contributed to the debasement that dishonesty has made them suffer. If money had never been seen as anything other than a commodity whose value is not, cannot be, fixed by law, if a stamp had been put on this commodity announcing in the sight of all and in common language the quantity and quality of the commodity, it would have undergone the variations in value which any sort of commodity more or less experiences; but it would not have been easy to debase it as has been done to the great detriment of the public.
