An Essay Upon Projects
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An Essay Upon Projects is described in its introduction as practical speculation concerned with society's well-being through the growth of material and moral power. The discussion of friendly societies says that such societies are extensive and might be carried on to many particulars. The author describes an omitted proposal for tradesmen to buy whatever they need from one another and nowhere else, with prices and payments settled among themselves.
The proposed pension office is presented as an attempt to relieve the poor, with its promised results dependent on receiving encouragement. The proposed safeguards require subscribers' payments to enter a chest with eleven locks, each committee member holding a key. The section on seamen calls involuntary naval service a wartime inconvenience to the king.
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- Daniel Defoe
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- 112
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- English
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