the business cycle came during the depression of 1858, and it appeared alongside a reference to weather: Some, claiming to be learned in meteorology, say the seasons ran in decades: it seems also that there is a sort of business cycle of the same length of time; and it happens very fortunately that the decimal panic comes at the same time with the mildest winter. Whether this is a coincidence or a providence, or whether it is a fact at all, I leave for others to decide.9
