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Rh with Petty he wages a fanatical war against money which, by its interference, disturbs the natural equilibrium or harmony of exchange of commodities and, like a wanton Moloch, demands all natural wealth as sacrifice. It is true that this assault on money was called forth by certain historic conditions. Since Boisguillebert attacked the blind destructive lust after gold which possessed the court of Louis XIV, his tax collectors, and his nobility; on the other hand. Petty extolled in the greed of gold the mighty impulse which spurred on the nation in her industrial development and in her conquest