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A 3 Political Prospects
In holding up in this point of view the measure operation
the result in question an operation which
may at one time or other may by possibility become
avoidable, nothing can be further from - nothing
even more opposite to my intention, than
to propose the embracing it voluntarily in any
case. Fiat justitia ruat caelum: convicta priere untandu — let every
thing that can be done be done in preference.
But should ever such a result prove physically inevitable
it w surely will be a consideration not
altogether devoid of consolation that this worst event
of all bad events that can happen is neither worse
than, nor in its effects so much as distinguishable from, all event
regarded universally as the brightest that ever illustrated illuminated
the history of finance. If having it has three times as
much to pay in annuities, [+]
[+] then although it should have thrice as much wealth if it
then although it should have it has only thrice as
much wealth, the price of three annuities, the quantity
of money it is capable able of raising by the rate
of a given annuity must necessarily be reduced, then and
consequently the quantity of annuity which it must
grant in order to raise a given sum of money
must
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