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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Without reserve.<br />
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Parasol, bustle, and baggage included.<br />
Coming in low..<br />
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The idea of trade and commerce naturally leads<br />
us to the consideration of the sublime science of<br />
Political Economy, which endeavours to dogmatize<br />
that profound conundrum, that the natural rate<br />
of wages is that which barely affords the labourer the<br />
means of subsistence, and of continuing the race of<br />
labourers—meaning thereby, the starvation point<br />
at which a labourer can be worked. It is assumed<br />
that the labourer has so much work in him, and the<br />
problem is to draw it out at the least possible cost<br />
—of whip or legal enactment—or police forces<br />
or military expenditure.<br />
Another leading doctrine of the political economists<br />
is,, the fatal necessity of starvation. It is<br />
maintained, and that seriously, that " God, when<br />
he<br />
"<br />
made man, intended that he should be starved ;<br />
that human fecundity tends to get the start of the
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