{"date":"October 14","id":"10-14","intro":["All colonies are founded to gain territory or treasure. Spain expected spice and gold from Columbus’s expedition, but got no spice and little gold. Adam Smith tells the true motive of the colonizing Greeks, Romans, English, and Spaniards."],"minutes":19,"readings":[{"author":"Adam Smith","end":404,"start":395,"volume":10,"work":"Wealth of Nations"}],"slug":"october-14","status":"proofread","title":"No Spice and Little Gold","url":"/harvard-classics/october-14/","words":3755}