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Excerpt from The World's Gold, Its Geology, Extraction, and Political Economy
Ments which fortune implies. This is the feeling of the miser when he plunges his hands into his coffers and dabbles in the yellow ?ood. His joy, at which we smile, makes him, in his way, an idealist and a poet, like the gambler when he takes up the cards. It is not the' glint of the metal which animates and attracts miser and gambler alike; it is the vision oi the fields and the woods, the houses and the furni ture, the art treasures, the luxuries and the pleasures which this gold: represents, which it would enable them to acquire if they wished, which at once start up and pass in procession before their mind's eye, and which are, in fact, at any given moment the potentialities contained in gold.
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