10 Mar 1804

Political Economy

+ Note

Note

Ch 1

Method

I Wealth II Non Agenda

Note

Among these several classes - Agenda, Sponte acta and Non Agenda - the

distribution of the imaginable stock of institutions will differ in a very

considerable degree according to the different circumstances of the several

political communities. In regard to defalcations from general opulence for the

security of subsistence, a sacrifice /an arrangement/ of that sort which in one

country may be at once needful and practicable, may in another be either not

needful, or what is more apt to be the case not practicable. The greater the

degree of opulence, the greater the list of Sponte Acta - the less therefore

that of Agenda. In Great Britain /England/ abundance of useful things are done

by individuals, which in other countries are done either by government, or not

at all. Docks, Harbours, Canals, Roads - Offices for Insurance {from}

/Institutions for relief against/ misfortune - in a variety of shapes, and a

variety of causes: Bodily affliction, death of friends, Fire - hostile capture

criminal depredation. In Russia, under Peter the great, the list of Sponte Acta

being a blank, that of Agenda was proportionally abundant.