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Numbers

Assumptions

Observations

Whatever error exists in the Assumptions, will exist in equal proportion in whatever Propositions are grounded on them: there is admitted: but in somuch as they approach to the truth insomuch will the propositions /deduced from them/ /so grounded on them/ approach to the truth likewise.

The population of the feeding community - the country at large is doubtless on the encrease: the quantum of the supplies which it affords year after year in different years to the Pauper community may therefore be expected to receive an increase from this source, over and above any increase they may receive from other sources. If then the number of Paupers be 500,000 and no more in any given year (1800 suppose) in the next (1801) they may be expected to amount to some number greater than the 500,000 - and so on. Of this increase we do not know the rate: but we know this much that it is slow and gradual: and that to such a degree as to leave ample time for making provision for it in the way of Home-Room as well as other requisites.