Note 50 — V.

Man, the sole support of his family, assuming an average of but two children by marriage, should always earn enough for four and spend for one: which assumes that there would be no one counting for nothing—no bachelor among men: moreover the logic of this system would be either marriage or death—fidelity in marriage or death; the certainty for the husband and the father of never having any sickness, and of assuredly surviving his wife and his children under age, &c. O logicians of the absurd!