No part of it has been lost, none destroyed.

For every possible appropriation there exists a plenty, even a plethora, of gold.

And let me say this: there is a deal of claptrap talked and written and printed and practiced concerning this business of a currency, a subject which when given a right survey presents no difficulty.

Mankind has been taught that in the essence of things fiscal your question of currency is as intricate and involved as was the labyrinth of Minos.

And then, to add ill-doing to ill-teaching, our own crazy-patch system of finance has been in every one of its patches cut and basted and stitched with an interest of politics or of private gain to guide the shears and needle of what money-tailor was at work.