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The General Assurance Advocate.
THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE .
31 ST DECEMBER , 1849 .
THOUGHTS AND HINTS . ASSURANCE is more thoroughly afloat than ever ; and , sooth to say , some of its promoters are thoroughly at sea , and , as Cowper has it , on the " waves of error tost . Their ship half foundered , and their compass lost . "
As usual , there are about as many opinions as there are men ; each grand division of proprietary , mixed and mutual , being broken up into countless smaller sub-divisions . Crito leads the van , marshalling his facts massively , and sketching his arguments dimly , but broadly , so as to form an Equitable phantasmagoria , ( a golden one , of course ) . Nothing but Equitable regulations are , with him , worth half a
thoughtthey are the real ne plus ultra . Still , with all his " nothing like leather " dogmatism , we would not willingly quarrel with him , because there is a vein of native kindliness in his nature , which leads him , while expressing his own opinions resolutely , to refrain from abusing those of others—an example worthy of all imitation ; with which remark , we must dismiss Crito , till the anxiously looked-for report of 1850 from the Equitable
shall shower gold upon the fortunate policy-holders . Such of the new offices as have a fair broad basis , and are conducted with liberality and industry , may congratulate themselves both on their progress and the lucubrations of Crito , who is ( unintentionally , no
doubt , ) their advocate , rather than their opponent ; but those new establishments which have not " the vital spark" in their composition , must even be content to wither silently away with those old offices which have lived their time , and are incapable of being reanimated by the spirit of zeal and enterprise . When decay strikes the old oaks , the mushrooms must not complain of their downfall . " Peace to their
manes J " We must not deal too heavily with the Government Life Assurance return , fit was a bungle , no doubt , but it was a novel and difficult
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The General Assurance Advocate.
THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE .
31 ST DECEMBER , 1849 .
THOUGHTS AND HINTS . ASSURANCE is more thoroughly afloat than ever ; and , sooth to say , some of its promoters are thoroughly at sea , and , as Cowper has it , on the " waves of error tost . Their ship half foundered , and their compass lost . "
As usual , there are about as many opinions as there are men ; each grand division of proprietary , mixed and mutual , being broken up into countless smaller sub-divisions . Crito leads the van , marshalling his facts massively , and sketching his arguments dimly , but broadly , so as to form an Equitable phantasmagoria , ( a golden one , of course ) . Nothing but Equitable regulations are , with him , worth half a
thoughtthey are the real ne plus ultra . Still , with all his " nothing like leather " dogmatism , we would not willingly quarrel with him , because there is a vein of native kindliness in his nature , which leads him , while expressing his own opinions resolutely , to refrain from abusing those of others—an example worthy of all imitation ; with which remark , we must dismiss Crito , till the anxiously looked-for report of 1850 from the Equitable
shall shower gold upon the fortunate policy-holders . Such of the new offices as have a fair broad basis , and are conducted with liberality and industry , may congratulate themselves both on their progress and the lucubrations of Crito , who is ( unintentionally , no
doubt , ) their advocate , rather than their opponent ; but those new establishments which have not " the vital spark" in their composition , must even be content to wither silently away with those old offices which have lived their time , and are incapable of being reanimated by the spirit of zeal and enterprise . When decay strikes the old oaks , the mushrooms must not complain of their downfall . " Peace to their
manes J " We must not deal too heavily with the Government Life Assurance return , fit was a bungle , no doubt , but it was a novel and difficult