The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858. Various
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Название: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858

Автор: Various

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      Mackay's History of Popular Delusions.

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      Doubleday's Financial History of England, p. 93.

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      It is very curious, that, while our leaders are in favor of exorci

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A failure of one half the cotton or wheat crop, we suspect, would play a considerable part among "the prices," whatever the state of the note circulation.

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Yet this is not to be lightly estimated. Seaman, in his Progress of Nations says the direct losses by paper money, within the last century and a half, have equalled $2,000,000,000.

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Mackay's History of Popular Delusions.

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Doubleday's Financial History of England, p. 93.

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It is very curious, that, while our leaders are in favor of exorcising small notes, many of the French and English Liberals are calling for an issue of them!

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Dr. F. Kern, Superintendent of the Idiot School at Gohlis, near Leipzig, in an article in the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, published the present year, (1857,) states that he examined a boy in the Abendberg Hospital in 1853, of whom Dr. Guggenbühl had said, in his work Upon the Cure of Cretinism, published a few months previously, that, "after the painstaking examination of Dr. Naville, he was held to be capable of entering a training school for teachers, in order to qualify himself for a teacher": Dr. Kern found that he knew neither the day of the week or the mouth, nor his birthday, nor his age.

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