He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton." in the context of "Daniel Webster, speech at a dinner in New York City (March 10, 1831), in The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster (1903), vol. 2, p. 50." to mean that wisdom is timeless.