1821. April 14.

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Means of accomplishment

Distributive Benefits

Abundance

II. Abundance.

Under abundance Of the instruments of abundance, the fund is comosed of the surplus of the means of subsistence, deduction made of the quantity destroyed by consumption in all its shapes.

Increase of production - decrease of consumption - under one or other of these two heads may be comprehended all the possible causes of increase to the abundance fund.

Natural and factitious - under one or other of these two heads may be comprehended all the possible modes of increase to production.

By natural, understand all those that have place without intervention on the part of the Legislator /Government/ in this particular view. Under this same head natural, is therefore comprehended whatsoever assistance is afforded to production by the security afforded to produce.

By factitious modes of increase to production, understand all such as are employed by Government in that special view.

Here comes in with propriety one general and all-comprehensive rule Rule. In so far as the natural means of increase to the abundance fund suffice for the production of the effect, think not /forbear/ to employ any factitious means for giving increase /addition/ or acceleration to it.

Reasons. Neither for this purpose /on this occasion/, nor for /on/ any other, can the hand /power/ of Government be employed, but coercion must be applied: immediately, as where the means /in so far as the inducements/ employed are of the remunerative kind: but it is only by coecion that any means of remuneration can be collected.

In favour, and for the benefit of, A. you can not seek to give encrease to production in the hands of A. except in so far as coercion is applied - either to A. himself, or to B., C. and D. and so forth.

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