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JOUENAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 



This interesting piece of ancient masonry has been kindly placed 

 at the disposal of the curator by Mr. Price, builder (who bought 

 the old materials of the alms-houses), and will be re-erected in 

 the garden at the back of the Athenaeum. 



A Paper will be read on the 28th October 



ON POLITICAL ECONOMY. 



By Mr. W. Adams. 



PROGBAMME. 



Political Economy, the Science which investigates the laws regu- 

 lating the production and distribution of Wealth. — Wealth, what- 

 ever men need and desire to enable them to attain their object in 

 life, and which therefore has exchange value. — Three requisites of 

 production: natural agents, labour, and abstinence. — Punction 

 of Capital to make Abstinence possible. — Distribution of Wealth 

 between the Contributors to its production. — Theory of Eent. — 

 Effect of increase of Wealth on number of Population. — Result 

 to a Nation of an exclusive desire for Wealth. — Need and advan- 

 tage of the study of the Science at present. 



SEO ENGLISCE SPR^C. 



ABSTRACT OF MR. SLATER'S PAPER. 



Some have taken exception to the use of the term " Anglo-Saxon," 

 to designate that form of the English language which was spoken 

 before the Norman conquest, on the ground that our ancestors 

 called themselves and their language English," and their country 

 England." The lecturer was of opinion that the difference 

 between Anglo-Saxon and English is too essential to allow of 

 their being called by a common name. " Seo Englisce Spraec" 

 was the original name, meaning The English Speech." (Grimm, 

 Deutsche Grammatik.) 



The Anglo-Saxon is a member of a family of languages spoken 

 in Europe and Western Asia, whose genealogical relation was first 

 seen by Friedrich von Schlegel, who gave them the simple name 



