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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INTEREST, DISCOUNT, ETC. 75<br />
Principle, or Principal, is an old term used by<br />
our forefathers in " money matters " and commercial<br />
transactions, but is now obsolete.<br />
It formerly<br />
represented capital, and raised the British merchant<br />
in the scale of nations ; but it is now a<br />
maxim of trade to discard Principle as not being<br />
consistent with Interest. It is paradoxically<br />
Capital to take care of our Interest, but it seldom<br />
requires any Principle to do so.<br />
" The want of money is the root of all eviL"<br />
Such is the new reading, according to the translation<br />
of a new sect called the Ti7iites.<br />
In the orthodox<br />
translation, the love of money was unfortunately<br />
rendered. To be without money is worse than being<br />
without brains—for this reason we should oppose<br />
all dangerous innovations, which in any way have<br />
a tendency to disturb the "balance of Capital."<br />
Right is not to usurp might. We are not, for the<br />
sake of Quixotic experiment, to invade the interests<br />
of the landed proprietor by an Anti-Corn Law<br />
movement, nor the vested right of doing wrong,<br />
which the various close corporations of law, physic,<br />
and trade, &c. have so long maintained, making<br />
England the<br />
envy of the world and the glory of<br />
surrounding nations.<br />
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