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Ch XVI: Circulating Annuities

Promotion of Frugality numerous walks of life, in which it is of most importance,
to prudence, probity, and happiness. <hi rend='underline'>(a)</hi>

Note

(a) Frugality, itself a virtue, is an auxiliary to all the
other virtues:— to none more than to generosity, to which by
the unthinking it is so apt to be regarded as an adversary.
The sacrifice of the present to the future is the common basis
of all the virtues:— frugality is among the most difficult
and persevering exemplifications of that sacrifice.— Important
in all classes, it is more particularly so in those
which most abound in uncultivated minds. In these, to
promote frugality is to promote sobriety:— to curb that raging
vice, which in peaceful times outstrips all other moral
causes of unhappiness put together. In the prospects
opened by frugality, the wife and children have a principal
share:— they derive nothing but vexation and distress, from
the money spent at the Ginshop or the Alehouse. Compared
with the prodigal the hardest of misers is a man of virtue. —

In the "Outline of a plan of provision for the poor" as printed
in Young's Annals of Agriculture, among the collateral
uses there mentioned, as derivable from the system of
Industry-Houses there proposed, is that of their affording,
each of them to its neighbourhood, a Bank, for the reception
and improvement of the produce of frugality, on a small
scale, under the name of a Frugality Bank. In the plan
that was handed about of the then proposed Globe Insurance
Company, since established by Act of Parliament, among
the uses mentioned as proposed to be made of the Stock
of such Company, is that of carrying on the business
of such a Frugality Bank; with a reference to the suggestions
given in relation to it in the above papers.— Were

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Ch.XVI Moral Advantages Ch.XVI Moral Advantages

To the head of moral advantages may be referred
two very distinct results:— prevention of improbity,
and promotion of frugality:— prevention of
improbity, by furnishing (as we shall see) a new
means or instrument of prevention: promotion of frugality,
by the offer of a new species of property, which, by
annexing an unprecedented remuneration to the exercise
of that virtue, operates at once as an incentive and as
a means.

1. Prevention of improbity in Trustees I. As to prevention of improbity.— The class of persons
in whose instance it may operate to this effect, consists
of Trustees of every description, to whom it belongs to
receive money on account of their principals:— Executors —
and Administrators — Guardians — Stewards and Receivers
— Assignees of Bankrupts — Prize Agents — Factors,
and the like. —

To cause trust-monies, as often as a suitable case
presents itself, to be laid out in the purchase of Government
Annuities, for the benefit of the principals, is,
in the Court of Chancery, matter of long established
practice: a practice which, by an Act of very recent
date, has received express support from Parliament.
The credit of the proposed new Government Annuities having
been previously established by sufficient experience,
let a similar investment of all trust-moneys as they come

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