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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26 FIGURES FOR THE MILLION.<br />
" For why—because the good old rule<br />
Suffices us—the simple plan,<br />
That they should take who have the power.<br />
And they should keep—who can."<br />
We have had some amusing ways of performing<br />
this rule in "by-gone ages." Among the most<br />
celebrated, were Indulgences and Benewlences,<br />
They worked well for those who worked ill, and<br />
led to a multiplication of heresies.<br />
Subtraction is perhaps one of the most fashionable<br />
of all the rules ; and any one who sets himself<br />
down for a gentleman must expect to be beset by<br />
a swarm of hungry locusts, who make a rule to<br />
bleed him at every pore till he becomes poor.<br />
When Edward the First took the wealth of the<br />
Jews and their teeth at the same time, he showed a<br />
fatherly consideration for those who having nothing<br />
to eat wanted neither incisores, cuspidati, bicuspidaj,<br />
or molarii. But we are to be nipped, and<br />
squeezed, and tapped, and leeched, and drained to<br />
all eternity, and are still expected to— give.<br />
To take in.—This rule not only teaches us to<br />
take from, but also to take in, which is to take<br />
from, with true tact and skill. England is the
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