11 Mar 1804

Polit. Economy

Ch.2. Leading Features

'.2.I. Wealth. 2. Non Agenda

{Ch. 2

'.2. I Wealth II. Non Agenda

Whatever is sponte actum on the part of individuals, falls thereby into the

class of Non Agenda in the part of Government. {Coercion the insuperable

accompaniment, precedent concomitant or subsequent, of every act of government,

is in itself an evil: to be any thing better than a pure evil, it requires to be

followed by some more than equivalent good.} Spontaneous[?] action excludes it:

action on the part of government supposes it.

Go to Fair Copy - p.3 in the middle

To judge of the utility of any measure of government in this time[?] or any

other for the execution of which money is required, compare the expected benefit

of it with the mischief of the vexation attached to the levying of the sum in

question by the most vexatious tax: For by giving up the projected measure, the

vexatious flowing from that source may be done away.