text:  We need not remind the public that the peculiar phrases of that disease with which the mind of Cobden is so profoundly impregnated essentially resolve themselves into the _moneymania;_ the leading characteristic of the mental hallucinations with which the patient is tormented consists in the inveterate habit of reducing all argument into arithmetical quantities; of calculating the value of all truth at some standard rate per pound sterling of what it might possibly produce as a matter of trade; of confounding syllogisms with ciphers and lumbering all logic into pounds shillings and pence