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"On the principle of the division of labour—"

Government was invented to spend a percentage.

To save a percentage.

No, sir, to spend a percentage; and a good deal more than two and a half per cent. Two hundred and fifty per cent.: that is intelligible.

"In the infancy of society—"

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.