The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our …

Edward Gibbon
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The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. ✨ Edward Gibbon (1781). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, p.317
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