The Financial Power of the Empire (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Financial Power of the EmpireSix or seven months ago the world had achieved at least a mechanical unity. The merchant in New York or Pekin could telegraph money or messages in a moment to any part of the globe. Almost at any time. On any day. One could buy transportation to any part of the civilized world. Year after year. With but slight interruptions, this process had been going forward, and year after year the boundaries of what we call civilization were being extended. Then, with paralysing sud denese. This artificial structure of commerce. Trade and finance was submerged as completely as Herculaneum was blotted out by the ashes of Vesuvius.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.