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1819. Nov. 21
IX. Radicalism not
II. Nature of the case
S Employ this
1 §. 3. III. Moveables
Value must be
or if the articles
are
§. 3. III. Partition of moveables impossible.
and we pass on now to property in a moveable shape. Here
if measurement weighing enumeration and valuation be performed at all,
no time would be to to test: for, on a scale varying from hundreds varying of
with hundreds of years at one end and moments at the other, decay will berise with more or less rapidity: and
as for reproduction, of that, it will presently be seen this could be
none.
[+] the articles in respect
of which for
is this that
contribute nothing to subsistence
and of which
comparatively the use,
the use to nothing,
the article
which will mount
be falling into decay
will be utterly destructive
of all value, are those
which are necessary to
subsistence
An objection must here at the outset be anticipated.
In the case of moveable articles (it may be said) speak not
of distinction of value as the necessary consequence of division: of the
destruction of the value as the necessary consequence of the
division of the substance: for by sale, then as now, that would be
equalizations would be made easy accomplished which otherwise would
be impossible in [+] sale Sale, with or without exception in regard to necessaries from
hand to mouth would, were by the supposition be altogether at one end, in the
first place there would be no money at all for purchase's in the next plan, [=] Such is the resource
presented. But alas!
how compleatly vain!
if there were money any where, there would be none that
would be spared for the purchase of any of those articles by the possession
of any one of which the supposed equality would be destroyed.
of ly. That there would be among the results
many already have been anticipated. But a proof more in detail
will be seen presently.
with a quickness
proportional to the
promptitude of
decay where
for preservation were
wanting would
value perish: the
soonest, all except
grain: employed
for subsistence.
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Objection. By sale,
destructive by division
would be prevented
Answer.
1. No money to buy
with
2. By purchase, the
equality would be
destroyed
So further on
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