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Describes the Report on Manufactures as a basic defense of the " acquisitive principle " and after claiming that TJ is " one of Rousseau 's greatest disciples , " reduces the difference between them the preference for economic diversification vs. Uses the January 16 , 1811 letter to Benjamin Rush in which TJ describes telling Hamilton that Bacon , Newton , and Locke were " my trinity of the three greatest men the world had ever produced " and Hamilton 's supposed rejoinder that " the greatest man ... Describes the Report on Manufactures as a basic defense of the " acquisitive principle " and after claiming that TJ is " one of Rousseau 's greatest disciples , " reduces the difference between them the preference for economic diversification vs. specialization , also understood as a tension between the primacy of public prosperity vs. political moralism . As if nothing could be different from that very combination of factors eroding in depth self-assurance , popular and national self-reliance , the feeling of security , the hope for a more fraternal and equable future for the majority of mankind - the taming of the ' acquisitive society ' . Secondly , since a participatory economy is not an " acquisitive " society , respect , esteem , and social recognition would be based largely on " social serviceability " which is enhanced precisely by developing one 's most socially useful potentials through education and training . The new contractarian methodol ogy does not permit me to know whether or not I would end up with a large or small " pile of possessions , " if I voted for a path that developed our " acquisitive instincts . What if people 's acquisitive tendencies were the result of an " acquisitive instinct " that in some sense was part .