Gesell's specific contribution to the theory of money and interest is as follows.

格塞尔对货币和利息理论的具体贡献如下。

I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx.

我相信未来从格塞尔精神中学到的会比从马克思精神中学到的更多。

The actual charge suggested by Gesell was 1 per mil.

Gesell 建议的实际收费是百万分之一。

In April 1919 Gesell joined the short-lived Soviet cabinet of Bavaria as their Minister of Finance, being subsequently tried by court-martial.

1919 年 4 月， 格塞尔作为财政部长加入短命的苏联巴伐利亚内阁， 随后受到军事法庭的审判。

The preface to The Natural Economic Order will indicate to the reader, if he will refer to it, the moral quality of Gesell.

如果读者愿意参考， 《自然经济秩序》的序言将向读者表明格塞尔的道德品质。

Gesell, drawing to himself the semi-religious fervour which had formerly centred round Henry George, became the revered prophet of a cult with many thousand disciples throughout the world.

格塞尔将以前以亨利乔治为中心的半宗教狂热吸引到自己身上，成为一个在全世界拥有数千名信徒的邪教中受人尊敬的先知。

Since few of the readers of this book are likely to be well acquainted with the significance of Gesell, I will give to him what would be otherwise a disproportionate space.

由于本书的读者中可能很少有人非常了解 Gesell 的重要性，因此我将给他一个原本不相称的篇幅。

But there is a great defect in Gesell's theory. He shows how it is only the existence of a rate of money interest which allows a yield to be obtained from lending out stocks of commodities.

但是格塞尔的理论有一个很大的缺陷。他说明了只有货币利率的存在才能允许通过出借商品库存获得收益。

The idea behind stamped money is sound. It is, indeed, possible that means might be found to apply it in practice on a modest scale. But there are many difficulties which Gesell did not face.

邮票背后的想法是合理的。的确，有可能找到在实践中小规模应用它的方法。但也有很多困难是格塞尔没有遇到的。