1822 Nov 15 Tripoli:- Security against Misrule Preliminary Explanations Ch

Bashaw's Inducement ?.2. Extra-regarding

But by any such sense of insecurity not only will capital be prevented from

being so employed as to prevent giving encrease to the stock of national wealth

in the country in question, but it will be prevented from coming into existence:

the adequate motive - the inducement for giving existence to it being wanting.

By the sight of the external instruments of enjoyment /felicity/ in all their

several shapes every man /human being/ is in a state of constant temptation,

solicited by them[?] as he is to make acquisition of them and in the way of

consumption, employ them according to their several qualities and destinations.

All without exception stand exposed to this temptation /are perpetually operated

upon/ for indeed - not one in a thousand are in a way to conceive the idea of

employing capital in the purchase of foreign securities; not many have the

self-denial to sacrifice in any such way to any considerable extent the present

to the contingent future: a future which even a state /country/ of the greatest

security is seldom estimated so high as it is worth: and which in a country such

as that in question is worth so little in comparison of what it is worth in

countries where subjects enjoy a very considerable and effectual security

against all irregular and unforeseeable exactions from /by/ the hand of

government, however it may be as to regular and foreseeable ones. This

temptation has in every state of things two branches: one is that which is

presented /constituted/ by the love /desire/ of enjoyment in the several shapes

in which it is afforded by the several instruments of enjoyment according to

their several natures; the other is that which is constituted by the aversion to

labour or say by the love of ease.