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it was the same in the century between the years1700 and 1800, though the mines yielded stillmore. It is to fix attention on this great changethat such an extended view of the several classesof society who were interested in it has been taken.Its effect has been felt in every quarter of theglobe, and has had an influence on the prosperityof the whole civilized race of man—not by thewealth that the gold and silver amounted to, butby the stimulus it began to administer to everybranch of industry, by the impulse it communicatedto physical, mechanical, legislative, judicial, andeven moral investigations, and by the attachment itinspired to the sound principles which introducedlegal, civil, and political freedom.