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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10 FIGURES FOR THE MILLION.<br />
of all grades, from the Lords of the Treasury to<br />
the meanest underling of the Stamp-Office.<br />
Place and pension make the unit a multitude,<br />
according to the position of the noughts,— that is,<br />
that large portion of the public called the nobodies.<br />
The more a man is surrounded by his inferiors,<br />
the greater he becomes. Hence the necessity of<br />
restrictive tariffs to prevent wealth in a community,<br />
—and of impediments to education. It is not,<br />
therefore, naughty for our betters to keep us down<br />
by any kind of mystification ; as the sun always<br />
looks larger through a fog.<br />
The value of figures and of ciphers will be well<br />
understood in the following table, which ought to<br />
be committed faithfully to memory. It wiU be<br />
seen that when the noughts, the<br />
nobodies, that i»,<br />
the people, go before the legislative units, their<br />
value is consequently decreased; but when they<br />
follow as good backers in good measures, the value<br />
of the characters is increased<br />
ad infinitum.
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