E4Cap28
Chapter — Part IV
Latin
Ad hæc autem comparandum vix uniuscujusque vires sufficerent nisi homines operas mutuas traderent. Verum omnium rerum compendium pecunia attulit, unde factum ut ejus imago mentem vulgi maxime occupare soleat quia vix ullam lætitiæ speciem imaginari possunt nisi concomitante nummorum idea tanquam causa.
English (Elwes 1883)
Now for providing these nourishments the strength of each individual would hardly suffice, if men did not lend one another mutual aid. But money has furnished us with a token for everything: hence it is with the notion of money, that the mind of the multitude is chiefly engrossed: nay, it can hardly conceive any kind of pleasure, which is not accompanied with the idea of money as cause.
Modern English
To secure these provisions, individual strength would barely suffice were it not for mutual assistance among people. Money has provided a means of exchange for everything, which is why the image of money tends to fill the minds of ordinary people — they can scarcely imagine any form of joy without the idea of money as its cause.