Canada and the War

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Excerpt from Canada and the War: The Promise of the WestA study of the causes of the high prices prevailing here Should begin by taking account of the increase of intelligence in the past century among people everywhere, with an accompanying advance in enterprise. Education and wider reading have awakened fuller consciousness in them, they are more aware of what is going on in the world, and with this knowledge their physical and mental wants increase.The spirit of divine discontent is abroad, spur ring men to rise in their standard of living and so promoting civilization, none are content without better fare than their fathers could get. They strive for more money as a means to attain more luxury, more amusement, more leisure to enjoy. The love of life has increased with their wider outlook, and the capacity to enjoy is active and eager to be grati fied, at first in physical well-being and after in the exercise of the higher faculties of taste and imagina tion.These larger wants have occasioned a continually growing increase in manufactures and trade, which has been made feasible by a concurrently increasing output of gold. Not that the supply of gold in itself directly promotes trade, but that on the quantity of it in circulation and in reserve depends the volume Of credit money - of bank notes, loans, and credits-available for trade, always in due ratio though to a vastly greater amount than the gold.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.