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which the possible manufacture of gold would
entail upon mankind. Universal bankruptcy,
universal confusion, anarchy, ruin. “One would
have to kill the discoverer of the process,” he
concluded.
Moreover, I know the fairly modest private
means of my friend. I am astonished to hear
him speak of his intended purchase of the ground
on which his dwelling stands. He is in debt,
must even economise, and yet means to be a
landowner. Everything combines to render me
suspicious of my good friend.
Grant that I am suffering from persecution-mania,
but what smith forges the links of these
hellish syllogisms?
“The discoverer would have to be killed.”
This is the thought with which my mental
torment subsides into sleep about the time of
sunrise.
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