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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158 FIGURES FOR THE MILLION.<br />
Stocks or Funds are the true substantial,<br />
In the golden ages of the world, cattle, corn, and<br />
merchandise were the medium of exchange among<br />
nations ; but as men grew more enlightened, they<br />
agreed to represent these things by pieces of conventional<br />
metal. This at last becoming scarce,<br />
the world would have fallen into a state of hapless<br />
and irrecoverable ruin, but for the idea of a fictitious<br />
representation of a representation, of a non-existmt<br />
which might have been.<br />
Funds are therefore the to kalon, the absolute,<br />
the logos, the never-to-be-apprehended, the inscrutable,<br />
the supreme totality of "emptiness," the<br />
absolute cause, the absolute effect, the absolute<br />
concurrence of national faith ; in short, the commercial<br />
" ideal " which all men worship, in its<br />
temples of the Bank and Stock Exchange.<br />
Stocks are the "heaven of this religion," an agreeable<br />
hallucination, by which a variety of insane persons,<br />
called Stockholders or Fundholders, are permitted<br />
to roam at large under the conviction that<br />
they possess wealth. The public are compelled<br />
to believe in these fictitious representations,<br />
which are the foundation of the " imaginative<br />
system" in fiscal affairs, of the Bill and Credit
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