1820. May 6

Emancipation Spanish

III 0-

'.6. Creoles not willing

Subsistence, abundance, security, equality - to these heads may be reduced the fruits of good government, taken in all their shapes. Under these heads I find them reduced by Bentham. Under these heads in every country, and consequently in yours.

Security for subsistence, security for abundance, security against all the evils to which man's nature is exposed, security against them in so far as they are capable of being averted, and more especially against those to which man is exposed at the hands of man: security against injuries to person, to property, to reputation, to condition in life.

Equality to all in respect of all these blessings: equality to all, but so far as, and no further than, such equaltiy is consistent with security to all.

Subsistence, abundance, and equality may have place in regard to a single point of time: security looks to all future points of time.

Subsistence will be more entire and secure, abundance more ample and secure, in proportion as that matter of both which the labouring part of the poor produce or otherwise acquire and enjoy is greater, and in proportion as that part which, by their having it taken from or otherwise they are bereft of without enjoyment is less.

A people may acquire the matter of subsistence and abundance either by their own labour, or without any labour of their own, from that of others.

What they acquire from the labour of others by means of a free exchange of the produced of their own labour for the produce of that of others is, in this particular way, acquired by means of their own labour.

In virtue /consequence/ of this faculty of being interchangeable [...?] habitually and generally exchanged the one for the other the matter of subsistence the matter of abundance, and the matter composed of the instruments of security on all their several shapes may be comprehended under one common denomination - the matter of wealth and over this same mass of matter may in some instances be applied to two of those purposes or to them, at different times or even at the same time.