4.All these causes conspire to make both individuals and governments, in estimating their means, attach almost exclusive importance to money, either in esse or in posse, and look upon all other things (when viewed as part of their resources) scarcely otherwise than as the remote means of obtaining that which alone, when obtained, affords the indefinite, and at the same time instantaneous, command over objects of desire, which best answers to the idea of wealth.
所有这些原因共同使得个人和政府，在估算其财力时，几乎只重视实际有的(in esse)或可能有的(in posse)货币，而把所有别的东西(当把它们看作是其财源的一部分时)仅仅看作是获得货币的间接手段，因为只有获得了货币，才能对欲望对 象拥有无限的而又即时的支配权，这便是重商主义者对财富观念所作的最好解释。
