COMIC ARITHMETIC
Arithmetic is the art or science of computing bj numbers. It is national, political, military, and commercial. It is of the highest importance to the community ; because it pre-eminently teaches us to take care of Number I. Our ministers succeed according to their knowledge of the science of numbers. Witness the skilful management of majorities of the lower house. He who understands the true art of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication^ and Division, as here laid down, will not be considered a mere cipher in tlie world; but will, in all probability, make a considerable /^wre ; and in the figurative words of Horace, be "Dives agris dives positis in foenore nummis." Let us, therefore, under the guidance and protection of that god of honest men, the light-heeled and light-fingered Mercury, be diligent so to add to our store by subtracting from the stores of others, that we may add to our importance. Let us so multiply our resources, by encouraging dimsion among our contemporaries, that we may see their reduction in the perfection of our own practice.
Arithmetic is the art or science of computing
bj numbers. It is national, political, military,
and commercial. It is of the highest importance
to the community ; because it pre-eminently
teaches us to take care of Number I. Our ministers
succeed according to their knowledge of the
science of numbers. Witness the skilful management
of majorities of the lower house.
He who understands the true art of Addition,
Subtraction, Multiplication^ and Division, as here
laid down, will not be considered a mere cipher in
tlie world; but will, in all probability, make a
considerable /^wre ; and in the figurative words of
Horace, be "Dives agris dives positis in foenore
nummis."
Let us, therefore, under the guidance and protection
of that god of honest men, the light-heeled
and light-fingered Mercury, be diligent so to add
to our store by subtracting from the stores of
others, that we may add to our importance. Let
us so multiply our resources, by encouraging dimsion
among our contemporaries, that we may see
their reduction in the perfection of our own practice.
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PRACTICE. 95<br />
Practice Preliminary is experimental philosophy,<br />
or asking discount for a bill at 18 months;<br />
Practice in General taking in the flats. The one<br />
resolves itself into '^trying it on,^^ the other to<br />
" clapping it onP<br />
" Trying it on'** is an universal principle, from<br />
the old Jew salesman who asks four pounds for a<br />
thread-bare coat and takes four shillings;<br />
or the<br />
old cabbage woman who offers 31bs. of " taters" for<br />
two pence and sells 71bs. for three farthings ; to<br />
the prime minister who asks three millions of<br />
taxes, and expects fine. The converse of this<br />
rule is,<br />
" Don't you wish you may get it."<br />
Practice is performed by taking "aliquot parts;<br />
to be a man of some " parts" is therefore necessary.<br />
The application of our "parts" to the<br />
science of L.S.D. with a view to their development<br />
and perfection, is the aim of the rule, and the<br />
" practice of Practice" is to show,<br />
That the value of a thing<br />
Is just the money it will bring;<br />
For money being the common scale<br />
Of things by measure, weight and rate.<br />
In all affairs of Church and State,
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