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mately correlated with analogous counterparts in social
and subjective life. This relativistic viewpoint has found
in money both the real effective bearer and the reflecting
symbol of its forms and movements.!
Money is, therefore, more than a standard of value
and a means of exchange. It has a meaning and significance
over and above its purely economic function. Modern
society is a monetary society not merely because its economic
 transactions are based on money, or because its
manifold aspects are influenced by money, but because it
is in money that the modern spirit finds its most perfect
expression.

\ Phil. des Geldes, pp. 534-85.

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