In The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, the past is interpreted in the terms of the present, the writing of history not as it happened but as it is happening. Pound referred to The Cantos as a "tale of the tribe" (Casillo). Pound's classic epic poem, The Cantos, is an investigation of human civilization, examining by turns those cultures free of usury and the decay that occur in those for which it has become a way of life. The civilization that is free of interest-slavery, rent-subjugation and credit inflation has a chance to be human; whereas the society that is not thus free has very little chance of attaining distinction. Ezra Pound saw usury as the chief economic ill of modern society. Although usury seems only an economic evil, Pound reaches the conclusion that economics is key to history, and that cultural vitality depends on the proper use of money. In The Cantos, Pound associated usury with making the naturally fertile infertile: usurers made something naturally infertile (money; coin) to "grow". While metal is durable it does not reproduce itself. For Pound the answer lay with the money and what it represented. The forces of greed and usury against the forces of beauty and literature; th

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