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"Thus I contend with Fancy and Opinion; and search the Mint and Foundery of Imagination. For here the Appetites and Desires are fabricated. Hence they derive their Privilege and Currency. If I can stop the Mischief here, and prevent false Coinage; I am safe. "" Idea! wait a while till I have examin'd thee, whence thou art, and to whom thou retain'st. Art thou of Ambition's Train? Or dost thou promise only Pleasure? Say! what am I to sacrifice for thy sake? What Honour? What Truth? What Manhood?--What Bribe is it thou bring'st along with thee? Describe the flattering Object; but without Flattery; plain, as the thing is; without addition, without sparing or reserve. Is it Wealth? is it a Report? a Title? or a Female? Come not in a Troop, (ye Fancys!) Bring not your Objects crouding, to confound the Sight. But let me examine your Worth and Weight distinctly. Think not to raise accumulative Happiness. For if separately, you contribute nothing; in conjunction, you can only amuse.""
(pp. 161-2 in 1710 ed. Cf. pp. 320-1, p. 143 in Klein)",2013-11-23 20:05:38 UTC,"""Thus I contend with Fancy and Opinion; and search the Mint and Foundery of Imagination. For here the Appetites and Desires are fabricated. Hence they derive their Privilege and Currency. If I can stop the Mischief here, and prevent false Coinage; I am safe.""",2009-02-26 00:00:00 UTC,"Part III, Section i","",2012-04-10,Coinage and Metal,"I've included thrice: Mint, Foundry, and Coin","Reading; found again in Charles Griswold's Adam Smith and the Virtues of the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 113.
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"This now, whereof we have taken some view in several of its branches, is that noble fund of ideas from whence all our intellectual riches are derived. The mind of man does often what princes and states have done. It gives a currency to brass and copper coined in the several philosophical and theological mints, and raises the value of gold and silver above that of their true standard. But the success of this expedient is much alike in both cases. In different sects, as in different states, the imposition passes; but none are the richer for it.
(Essay I, ยง4; vol. iii, p. 417)",2014-03-14 20:28:24 UTC,"""The mind of man does often what princes and states have done. It gives a currency to brass and copper coined in the several philosophical and theological mints, and raises the value of gold and silver above that of their true standard.""",2014-03-14 20:28:24 UTC,"","",,"",INTEREST. USE IN ENTRY.,Reading,23723,7856