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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DIVISION. 39<br />
Division is of great importance, whether political,<br />
ecclesiastical, commercial, civil, or social.<br />
Nothing<br />
is more likely to destroy your opponents than a<br />
split. Divide et impera is the true Machiavelian<br />
policy of all governments.<br />
Numbers, that is the multitude, are to be<br />
divided, in a variety of ways,— by mob orators, or<br />
by mob-sneaks, or by parliamentary flounderers,<br />
or by mystifying pulpit demagogues.<br />
The divisors should generally endeavour to<br />
work into their own hands, and the dividends<br />
may be compared to fleeced-sheep, plucked-geese,<br />
scraped sugar -casks, drained wine -bottles, and<br />
squeezed lemons.<br />
Social Division.—The divisions here may be a<br />
tale-bearer, a gossip, or a go-between, and the<br />
divisors will " separate" to fight like Kilkenny<br />
cats, leaving nothing behind but two tails and a<br />
bit of flue. In a township, a volunteer corps is an<br />
excellent divisor: you may kill the adjutant by<br />
way of a quotient, on the surgical principle of<br />
" Mangling done here."<br />
In the division of property by will, be your<br />
own lawyer, and your property will be divided to
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