As soon as he was elected to the presidency he set a committee of competent, accredited engineers to work appraising property values in the different states, and great tracts of hundreds of thousands and millions of acres, previously assessed at half as many thousands as they were worth millions, were revalued and reassessed at their true inherent value.

[vary the value of money] inflate, deflate; debase; devalue, revalue.

These "Confessions" reveal him in the process of revaluing the values of life and art for himself.

It is only in quite recent days that a thoroughgoing attempt has been made to revalue all the old standards of morality.