Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
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REV. DR. FOLLIOTT. I will not say any such thing.
MR. MAC QUEDY. Well, say any percentage you please. REV. DR. FOLLIOTT. I will not say any percentage at all. MR. MAC QUEDY. "On the principle of the division of labour--" REV. DR. FOLLIOTT. Government was invented to spend a percentage. MR. MAC QUEDY. To save a percentage. REV. DR. FOLLIOTT. No, sir, to spend a percentage; and a good deal more than two and a half percent. Two hundred and fifty per cent.: that is intelligible. MR. MAC QUEDY.--"In the infancy of society--" MR. TOOGOOD.--Never mind the infancy of society. The question is of society in its maturity. Here is what it should be. (Producing a paper.) I have laid it down in a diagram. MR. SKIONAR. Before we proceed to the question of government, we must nicely discriminate the boundaries of sense, understanding, and reason. Sense is a receptivity - MR. CROTCHET, JUN. We are proceeding too fast. Money being all that is wanted to regenerate society, I will put into the hands of this company a large sum for the purpose. Now let us see how to dispose of it. |
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