HISTORY

OF

SAVINGS BANKS.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

“Archimedes was wont to say that he would remove the world out of its place, if he had elsewhere to set his foot, and truly I believe so far that otherwise he could not do it. I am sure that so much is evident in the architecture of fortunes, in the raising of which the best art or endeavour is able to do nothing, if it have not where to lay the first stone.”—Sir Henry Wotton.