Gulliver's Travels

Explaining Money to a Horse

The Land of Horses 5, A Minister's Words

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A money-bag creature in spectacles, holding keys and a pair of scales, sits on top of the globe.
Illustration by J. J. Grandville, Voyages de Gulliver, Paris, Fournier and Furne, 1838Original

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The master still could not understand it. What drove this race of lawyers to trouble and tire themselves so much, and to join together in injustice, just to harm their fellow animals?

When Gulliver said they did it for pay, the master understood even less.

So Gulliver took great pains to explain money. He described what it was made of and why those metals were valuable.

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