David Graeber Quotes
The man who won the argument, however, was John Locke, the Liberal philosopher, at that time acting as advisor to Sir Isaac Newton, then Warden of the Mint. Locke insisted that one can no more make a small piece of silver worth more by relabeling it a 'shilling' than one can make a short man taller by declaring there are now fifteen inches in a foot.
David Graeber
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The man who won the argument, however, was John Locke, the Liberal philosopher, at that time acting as advisor to Sir Isaac Newton, then Warden of the Mint. Locke insisted that one can no more make a small piece of silver worth more by relabeling it a 'shilling' than one can make a short man taller by declaring there are now fifteen inches in a foot.
David Graeber
