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MERCHANTS occasionally go through a wholesome, though troublesome and not always satisfactory, process which they term taking stock. After all the excitement of speculation, the pleasure of gain, and the pain of loss, the trader makes up his mind to face facts and to learn the exact quantity and quality of his solid and reliable possessions. The man of science does well sometimes to imitate this procedure; and, forgetting for the time the importance of his own small winnings, to re-examine the common stock in trade, so that he may make sure how far the stock of bullion in the cellar-on the faith of whose existence so much paper has been circulating-is really the solid gold of truth.

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