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Political, miscellaneous, and philosophical pieces arranged under the following heads, and distinguished by initial letters in each leaf: General politics: American politics before the troubles: American politics during the troubles: Provincial or colony politics: and Miscellaneous and philosophical pieces / written by Benj. Franklin, now first collected with explanatory plates, notes, and an index to the whole. [Ed. by Benjamin Vaughan].

Benjamin Franklin

Date:: 1779

Credit: Political, miscellaneous, and philosophical pieces arranged under the following heads, and distinguished by initial letters in each leaf: <G. P.> General politics: <A. B. T.> American politics before the troubles: <A. D. T.> American politics during the troubles: <P. P.> Provincial or colony politics: and <M. P.> Miscellaneous and philosophical pieces / written by Benj. Franklin, now first collected with explanatory plates, notes, and an index to the whole. [Ed. by Benjamin Vaughan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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t 4+ ] Pojitions to he Examined 1. ALL food of fubfiftence for mankind d ^ arife from the earth or waters. 2. Necelfaries of life that are not foods, and all other conveniencies, have their values efti- mated by the proportion of food confumed while we are employed in procuring them. 3. A fmall people with a large territory may fubfift on the productions of nature, with no other labour than that of gathering the vegeta¬ bles and catching the animals, 4. A large people with a fmall territory finds thefe infufficient, and to fubfift, muft labour the earth, to make it produce greater quantities of vegetable food, fuitable for the nourifhment of men, and of the animals they intend to eat. 5. From this labour arifes a great increafe of vegetable and animal food, and of materials for clothing, as flax, wool, filk, &c. The fuper- fluity of thefe is wealth. With this wealth we pay for the labour employed in building our houfes, cities, &c. which are therefore only fubfiftence thus metamorphofed. 6. Manufactures are only another fhape into Which fo much provifions and fubfiftence are % [This article has been inferted in The Repoftory for feleB papers, on Agriculturet Arts, and Manufactures. Vol. I. page 35°. f-J turned.

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