District of Columbia, to wit:

BE it remembered, that, on the fifteenth day of March, in the forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Joseph Milligan, of the said District has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following to wit:

THE ECONOMICS OF DESTUTT DE TRACY

by Timothy D. Terrell

MONTICELLO, October 25, 1818.

SIR,

PROSPECTUS

POLITICAL ECONOMY, in modern times, assumed the form of a regular science, first in the hands of the political sect in France, called the Economists. They made it a branch only of a comprehensive system, on the natural order of Societies. Quesnia first, Gournay, Le Trosne, Turgot, & Dupont de Nemours, the enlightened, philanthropic, and venerable citizen now of the United States, led the way in these developements, and gave to our enquiries the direction they have since observed.

ADVERTISEMENT

AT the end of my logic I have traced the plan of the elements of ideology, such as I conceived they ought to be, to give a complete knowledge of our intellectual faculties, and to deduce from that knowledge the first principles of all the other branches of our knowledge, which can never be founded on any other solid base. It has been seen that I divide these elements into three sections. The first is properly the history of our means of knowledge, or of what is commonly called our understanding.

ABSTRACT,

OR

ANALYTICAL TABLE.

SECOND SECTION,

OF THE

Elements of Ideology, or a treatise on the will and its
effects.

INTRODUCTION.

SECTION 1.

The faculty of will is a mode and a consequence of the faculty of perception.

We have just finished the examination of our means of knowledge. We must employ them in the study of our faculty of will to complete the history of our intellectual faculties.

FIRST PART

OF THE

TREATISE ON THE WILL AND ITS EFFECTS.

OF OUR ACTIONS.

CHAPTER I.

Of Society.

IN the introduction to a treatise on the will it was proper to indicate the generation of some general ideas which are the necessary consequences of this faculty.

It was even incumbent on us to examine summarily,

1st. What are inanimate beings, that is to say beings neither sentient nor willing.

A TREATISE

ON

POLITICAL ECONOMY, &c.

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

SECOND SECTION

OF THE

Elements of Ideology, or a treatise on the will and its effects.

INTRODUCTION.

SECTION FIRST.

The faculty of willing is a mode and a consequence of the faculty of feeling.