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indulgence on the other. If a man who has served
ten years and a half in a such manner as just to
escape censure is to have as the whole pension
allowed, be it what it may, is it reasonable that
another who has served after a most exemplary service of nine years and a half finds
himself obliged to retire should have absolutely nothing?
The view of this inequality naturally points to
a graduated table of in which the quantum of
pension shall be proportioned to the length of service,
and the table the idea of this table serves
finally to demonstrate the non-necessity of
any such provision. All this while the artificial
scale which how numerous soever its divisions
are made will must still be left exposed to some degree
of disproportionality is superseded by a natural one
most accurately proportionable. The place whatever
it be is all along supposed to have a salary
annexed to it, which the the pension on retreat would
hardly in any case equal, certainly not exceed. But the longer
a man has had the place with the pension belonging
to it the more time he has had to lay up accumulate
money out of the emoluments of it savings which
as
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