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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56 FIGURES FOR THE MILLION.<br />
doing the labour ; for if one man had the labour<br />
and the gains too, it would be abominable, and<br />
destructive to all the usages of society.<br />
It is also strictly proportional, that we should<br />
pay not only for what we have, but for that which<br />
we have not. Thus church-rates ought to be<br />
inflicted, not so much for the benefit of the church,<br />
but as the substitute for that wholesome discipline<br />
of flagellation, unhappily discontinued, and for the<br />
"good of the soul;" for if the spiritual benefit<br />
be great to those who pay for what they receive<br />
only, how great must be the reward of those who<br />
are content to pay for that which, they not only do<br />
not receive, but which they will<br />
not have at any<br />
price ! Hence, it is possible that even dissenters<br />
may he sauced—the trouble of spending their money<br />
in other ways.<br />
The " Tax upon Incomes" aifords also a striking<br />
example of the doctrine of Proportionals. It is so<br />
beautifully equalized, that the loss upon one branch<br />
of trade is not to be set off against the gain of<br />
another, the object of the act<br />
being, no doubt, to<br />
put a stop to trade altogether, as the best means of<br />
placing things statu quo, the grand desideratum<br />
of modern legislation.
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