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Article THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE. ← Page 2 of 7 →
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The General Assurance Advocate.
matter to deal with , and some allowance must be made on that score . It was confessedly very imperfect . Many offices , for reasons unknown to the public , made no return at all ; others such a return as it is probable the Directors themselves would be awfully puzzled to explain . It is possible that some had weighty reasons for that course , and that others were indifferent what the public thought about them . The rest made a
clean breast of it , and spoke the truth . Looking at the matter in the most charitable way , however , there was an unaccountable hitch in the Registrar ' s report , and that functionary would possibly have withdrawn it , had not that wise course been rendered impossible by the monopolizing spirit of Crito ' s admired organ , the Post Magazine , which bought up the entire edition at one fell swoop , in order to disseminate its errors by
retail to its patrons and friends , at a profit . We take the following from its pages : — " The reprint of the Parliamentary Return relating to the Accounts of Assurance Companies , is now in course of publication at our office . If . by Monday evening next , any subscriber to it should not have received his copy or copies , it is desirable that notice to that effect should be forwarded to the puplisher . " Such a transaction was
within the scope of legal cunning , but its fairness is another matter , and we feel happy that we are not the keeper of the Post Magazine ' s conscience , if it have one . What Crito will say to it we can ' t guess . Cesar ' s wife should , at all events , be pmre ; but we suppose that our Assurance Caesar will not publish his spouse ' s shame , and will hold his tongue with most approved discretion .
Mr . Baylis has circulated his peculiar views ; and among them his idea of a plan for using Life Assurance to abolish poor rates . That may be in its own good time , when the world shall have grown both wiser and better , but " the end is not yet . " Mr . Burt ( Actuary of the Sea Fire and Life ) has published his
calculations and objects of Life Assurance , and has been sharply and tartly denounced by Veritas , in the Post Magazine , as an unscrupulous plagiarist from the pages of the "Companion to the Almanac " for 1831 . Of course Veritas is '' an honourable man , " and therefore the omission of his name and address is quite unimportant ; or perhaps it may be that truth has neither " a local habitation nor a name . " Veritas quotes
largely from the Companion to justify his charge , but the matter said to have been stolen is common property , and Mr . Burt might have avoided the strictures of Veritas , and the savagely crushing animadversions of the Post Magazine , by simply acknowledging that he had profited largely by the perusal of the said publication , and thus have saved the mountain all the trouble and pain of being , with much ado about little better than nothing , delivered of a mouse .
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The General Assurance Advocate.
matter to deal with , and some allowance must be made on that score . It was confessedly very imperfect . Many offices , for reasons unknown to the public , made no return at all ; others such a return as it is probable the Directors themselves would be awfully puzzled to explain . It is possible that some had weighty reasons for that course , and that others were indifferent what the public thought about them . The rest made a
clean breast of it , and spoke the truth . Looking at the matter in the most charitable way , however , there was an unaccountable hitch in the Registrar ' s report , and that functionary would possibly have withdrawn it , had not that wise course been rendered impossible by the monopolizing spirit of Crito ' s admired organ , the Post Magazine , which bought up the entire edition at one fell swoop , in order to disseminate its errors by
retail to its patrons and friends , at a profit . We take the following from its pages : — " The reprint of the Parliamentary Return relating to the Accounts of Assurance Companies , is now in course of publication at our office . If . by Monday evening next , any subscriber to it should not have received his copy or copies , it is desirable that notice to that effect should be forwarded to the puplisher . " Such a transaction was
within the scope of legal cunning , but its fairness is another matter , and we feel happy that we are not the keeper of the Post Magazine ' s conscience , if it have one . What Crito will say to it we can ' t guess . Cesar ' s wife should , at all events , be pmre ; but we suppose that our Assurance Caesar will not publish his spouse ' s shame , and will hold his tongue with most approved discretion .
Mr . Baylis has circulated his peculiar views ; and among them his idea of a plan for using Life Assurance to abolish poor rates . That may be in its own good time , when the world shall have grown both wiser and better , but " the end is not yet . " Mr . Burt ( Actuary of the Sea Fire and Life ) has published his
calculations and objects of Life Assurance , and has been sharply and tartly denounced by Veritas , in the Post Magazine , as an unscrupulous plagiarist from the pages of the "Companion to the Almanac " for 1831 . Of course Veritas is '' an honourable man , " and therefore the omission of his name and address is quite unimportant ; or perhaps it may be that truth has neither " a local habitation nor a name . " Veritas quotes
largely from the Companion to justify his charge , but the matter said to have been stolen is common property , and Mr . Burt might have avoided the strictures of Veritas , and the savagely crushing animadversions of the Post Magazine , by simply acknowledging that he had profited largely by the perusal of the said publication , and thus have saved the mountain all the trouble and pain of being , with much ado about little better than nothing , delivered of a mouse .