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35
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Ch. Grounds
VII. Universal
36(a) continued
Note continued
This obstacle is a distinct and additional one over and above
that which is constituted by the expence. By the expence the inducement
to engage in the transaction is diminished or taken away: by the want of
facility as here exemplified the very idea of engaging in the transaction is
prevented from presenting itself.
For want of the necessary road thus made between
the source of the profit and the attention of the
party capable of being becoming a customer, a very considerable
profit may obtain no customers, wh
at the very time when a much less considerable
one obtains them in plenty. as the itinerant Hawker
Money which, with or without addition, is
thus kept up, with whatever view, without
that inducement
That sums of money to a considerable amount
are thus held by, and kept up, by the frugal
and provident among the various classes of
working hands, [+] Servants domestic servants, Journeymen, at Shopkeepers, Journeymen, Manufacturers, Handicrafters, Petty Farmers, Day-labourers, and the like is a matter of fact, instances
of which so commonly exemplified, that there
are few but must have had occasion to observe
instances of it. Sickness, provision for old age
Ne extension of trade, increased case additions
to domestic conveniences, Marriage, education or
portioning of children, provision for widowhood
provision for unforeseen exigencies, provision for old age —
the all these are but a part of the objects in and are
the contemplation of which may view any of which singly or in conjunction may
have produced had the effect of producing
the degree of denial self-denial necessary
to the sacrifice thus made of the present to the
future. But whenever may be the amount of
these sacrifices there made for the sake of the principal
aim where the future employment of an unproductive the principal
constitutes the wh sole reward, haow much greater might it
not be expected
to be where were the addition
of interest
to be thrown into
the scale?