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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1881 (search)
hing a fixed ratio between the metals, so that their multiplication and division should make but a single scale. This, Mr. Pirmez would have us understand, would prove an ineffectual struggle of positive law against the law of nature. It is thus heral progress among nations which is the ideal and the hope, the pride and the enjoyment of the age in which we live. Mr. Pirmez, however, would have us understand that this simple law of fixing the ratio between the metals, to be observed among coat will resist their execution, are unwise for the time and the circumstances to which they are applied. I believe, as Mr. Pirmez does, that an ill-matched struggle between arbitrary decree and the firm principles of human nature will result in the between the metals among the nations up to 1870. With more vigorous aid from positive law, that written reason, which, Mr. Pirmez says, is all the law there ever is or can be, I cannot but anticipate the suppression of the discord and struggle betwe