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THEORIES.
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MR. MAC QUEDY.

"On the principle of the division of labour—"

THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.

Government was invented to spend a percentage.

MR. MAC QUEDY.

To save a percentage.

THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.

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.

THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.

"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.