30 Aug. 1801

Polit. Economy

A1 V

Method

I. Sponte Acta

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{ Iron is the best material for knives and hatchets, thoug in Otaheite and elsewhere stone is employ'd for that purpose. A person whom I knew cut his finger once (as he told me) with a piece of Suffolk cheese.

On ship board at the time of an engagement, hammocks articles of subsistence (or rather of customary luxury not indispensably necessary to subsistence for a Russian lies sleeps upon a bunk or upon the floor) articles of of subsistence of a [...?] /middle/ nature between cloathing and lodging, are frequently applied to the purpose of defence - being stowed in such manner as to deaden the stroke of the shot.

Enjoyment being in a manner inseparable from the application of articles of subsistence to their use, all articles of subsistence are instruments of enjoyment likewise. The distinction therefore is not between articles of subsistence and instruments of enjoyment but between articles of subsistence and instruments of mere enjoyment: viz: that by their application to use contribute nothing to subsistence any more than to defence. Instances of instruments of mere enjoyment are abundant: tobacco (the great luxury of the great body of the people) - tobacco and perfumes may be sufficient for illustration.}