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The »7t7t I call those who, without manual iubour, posscs^s 

 the necessaries, comforts and decencies suited to their rank 

 ill society, without any refined luxuries or ostentatious super- 

 fluities. 



The poor are those who by manual labour acquire' the ne- 

 cessaries, and many at least of its comforts for themselves and 

 their families, but not its luxuries. 



The indigent are those who cannot even by manual labour 

 (of which they are often incapable) gain the necessaries 

 of life*. 



The necessaries of life are wholesome food, an habitation 

 so contrived as to secure the inhabitant against the inclemency 

 of the seasons, fire and sufficient cloathing, dry materials tu 

 rest on, and the means of procuring those necessaries-f-. 



I call comfort whatever frees us from uneasiness, and con- 

 tributes to our conveniencies or pleasures. 



By luxuries I understand, 1st, objects which are chiefly va- 

 lued as ornamental, costly or fashionable. 



y 2 2dly, Various 



* Doctor Adam Smith has much enlarged the notion of necessaries ; for he compre- 

 hends under that name, not on!j' those things that nature, but those which the established 

 rules of decency have rendered necessary to the lowest ranlis of the people, as linen 

 shirts, and shoes for men, though not for women. Smith on the Wealth of Nations, vol. 3. 

 p. 332; all besides he calls luxuries. However, as Julius Csesar and the richest Romans 

 eould do without linen shirts, as well as many modern tribes, I cannot consent to call 

 them necessaries, but rather comforts. 



■^ This necessary distinction was first made by Mr. Colc^uhon. 



