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Ch. 2. Leading Features.

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5. From the catalogue of Agenda, having for their object the encrease of the

National stock of the matter of wealth, in all its three shapes together - must

be distinguished in any such measures, the aim of which is confined to the

encreasing of it in any one of those shapes, at the expence of either of the two

others. Measures of this tendency, will, so far as they are justifiable, find

their justification in the same considerations, which prescribe the application

of the matter of wealth to its several uses, as mentioned in No. 1.

6. In this way a sacrifice is made of the matter of wealth, in the most agreable

of its shapes, to the same matter in one or other of the two necessary ones: of

the matter of enjoyment to the matter of subsistence, or the matter of defence.

Suppose the assumed necessity real, the transformation belongs, by the

supposition to the catalogue of Agenda.

7. I. Sacrifice of enjoyment to subsistence: - If, in any nation, for the use of

the whole, or any part of such nation, government were to establish, in the

character of Security-funds, Magazines of the matter of subsistence - such

modifications of course, as are cheapest & least perishable - Grain for

example - not to be drawn upon but in times of extraordinary scarcity; an

institution of this sort would hardly be thought of, much less be regarded as

beneficial and desirable, under the notion of its producing a clear addition to

the aggregate mass of the National stock of the matter of wealth in all its

shapes taken together. In the catalogue of Agenda it would not be placed, in any

other character than that in which it is above described.