22 Aug. 1801

Polit. Economy

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In like manner in the case of exportation the decrease is only relative: exportation alone being considered, by so much as the wealth of this community is decreased, that of some other is decreased: in relation to the world at large the quantity suffers not in either case any change.

In general, import in respect of one portion of wealth does not take place, but export in respect to another and correspondent position - a portion generally regarded as being of equal value takes place at nearly the same time: the transfer or self-deprivation having the acquisition for what in the language of English law is called its consideration, and in the language of general logic its final cause: but between community and community, as between individual and individual, from motives of fear, amity, or remote personal interest it will sometimes happen that export from this community shall take place without a correspondent import into this from that: import into this, without export from this into that: though import into this can not take place (unless it be from spots occupied in common by the two, such as the greater part of the sea, and some unappropriated parts of the land) without export from that.

Consumption again takes place in either of two ways: purposely in the way of use - or undesignedly, in the way of deperition, without use