I cant' answer the question but it is an extremely interesting sentence to be missing. Carl Wennerlind in Casualties of Credit cites capital punishment for counterfeiters as one of the key elements in the establishment of the English financial revolution, along with war and the slave trade. Isaac Newton was appointed Warden of the Royal Mint and went after counterfeiters zealously -- visiting jails and taverns in disguise to get evidence against them.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Angelus Novus <[email protected] > wrote: > > > In the German original text, when Marx writes about the historical role of > the Bank of England, there is the following passage: > > "Allmählich wurde sie der unvermeidliche Behälter der Metallschätze des > Landes und das Gravitationszentrum des gesamten Handelskredits. Um > dieselbe Zeit, wo man in England aufhörte, Hexen zu verbrennen, fing man > dort an, Banknotenfälscher zu hängen." > > The first sentence is reproduced both in the Ben Fowkes and Edward Aveling > translations. In the Aveling translation at the MIA, it reads as follows: > > "Gradually it became inevitably > the receptacle of the metallic hoard of the country, and the centre of > gravity of all commercial credit." > > The second sentence is **missing from both English translations**. It > means: "In England, at the same time that the burning of witches ceased, > counterfeiters of bank notes were starting to be hanged." > > So I checked the Spanish edition, translated by Wenceslao Roces, and the > missing sentence is there: "Por los años en que Inglaterra dejaba de quemar > brujas, comenzaba a colgar falsificadores de billetes de banco." > > > Does anybody know what the story is as to why this passage is missing from > **both** English translations? Can you all confirm its absence or presence > in other languages? > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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