Quote#World
I cannot believe that God ever design'd the Riches of the World to be…
Quote byDaniel Defoe · 1660–1731
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The History of the Principal Discoveries and Improvements in the Several Arts and Sciences: Particularly the Great Branches of Commerce, Navigation, and Plantation, in all parts of the known world (1727), p. 6.
English (original)
I cannot believe that God ever design'd the Riches of the World to be useless to the World; that the Gold, the Silver, the Diamonds, and other Species of such Immense Worth and Value, was ever created in the Bowels of the Mountains, and the most hidden Parts of the World to lye buried there, and remain unprofitable, till they come to be melted down again in the General Conflagration.
— Daniel Defoe
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