[...?] Aug. 1801

Polit. Economy

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Method

1. Sponte Acta

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I. Sponte Acta - Cases in which, and measures or operations by which the end is

promoted, by individuals, acting for themselves; and without any special

interference exercised with this special view on the part of government; any

beyond the distribution made and maintained, and the protection afforded by the

civil and penal branches of the Law. What the legislator and the Minister of the

Interior have it in their power to do towards encrease either of wealth or

population is in comparison with what is done of course, and without thinking of

it by the Judge, and his assistant the Minister of Police.

Inclination, knowledge, power knowledge - all concurring in the requisite

degree, the effect takes place the end in view is accomplished; any one failing,

it fails of being accomplished

In general /In a general point of view/, inclination equal to the production of

an unlimited quantity of wealth, can not be wanting: knowledge (a branch of

power), as little, being the fruit of inclination, power - what is requisite of

it beside knowledge - chiefly pecuniary capital has its limits in the instance

of each individual - is of course wanting as to every thing beyond those limits,

but can not be created by government as inclination and knowledge may, as it

were out of nothing: it can not be given to any one individual without having

been first taken to equal or rather greater amount from others.