A great collateral benefit from this thread

Thanks for referring to this book

So long as this state of affairs continues, so long as Individuals in
place of Government retain control of the Monetary Measure, there
can be no real Religion, there can be no real Liberty, there can be no
real National Life. The bases of Religion are Love and Fraternity.
There can be no Fraternity whilst an Unjust Measure is permitted to
introduce discontent and strife into all the transactions of social life.
The basis of Liberty is Justice. There can be no Justice whilst an
Unjust Measure continues to nullify the lessons of wisdom and ex-
perience. The basis of National Life is Political Equality. There
can be no Equality so long as an Unjust Measure continues to rob
the many for the benefit of the few. The control of Weights and
Measures, including Money and the materials of which its symbols are
made, is a prerogative and a necessary prerogative of National Life.
It has been so held by all the Courts of Judicature, by all the ex-
ponents of Law, from Plato to Paulus, from Paulus to Grimaudet,
from Grimaudet to the Mixt Money case, and from the latter to the
decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.