now Rothschild was providing Europe with a new social elite by raising up the system of government bonds to supreme power . . . {and} endowing money with the former privileges of land. To be sure, he has thereby created a new aristocracy, but this is based on the most unreliable of elements, on money . . . {which} is more fluid than water and less steady than the air . . .32
( Niall Ferguson )
[ The Ascent of Money: A ]
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