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+ Note 147
Note to the Note continued and concluded
Be this as it may, the calculation would be
a very envious and instructive one: and, at any
rate, at the conclusion of the war, so many of the
above elements will have been given, that it might
easily be ascertained by what degree of ambition,
practicable or impracticable the profit to national wealth by
redemption of debt and restitution to capital, would be
nearly equal to less to do by borrowing and war-expenditure.