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264 DECIMAL COINAGE.
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the upon boys one and youn girls g * gen find eration few friends In one in year public . But life in . ag The itating attention 1 this in matter of men ,
is turned upon their views of advantage and disadvantage comcould merce , be reve made nue foll , or other aware things of the very requiring great calculation comparative . ease If women which y
would be introduced into the teaching and learning of money calculation by the adoption of the proposed in favor ehang of _-e , it they would lend
their active assistance to the agitation . mended At present by two the Royal matter Commissions stands thus . on Wei The g change after hts and much has Measures examination been recom , and
by of evidence a Committee . It of was the then House recommende of Commons d by , a vote of the House of Commons . But as the matter is one which excites no political feelh to take
further ing step , the excep examination government t the appointment of that the is day of to a felt say Royal itself , to put Commission strong off the enoug evil to make day for still no a ;
session or two . This Commission is now in its third year of existence another , and discussion will report in the at some House time of Commons or other . , which Then will will decide follow
whether Rome and an other improvement Italian States of which and the France United , Belg States ium , Switzerland of America , ,
land are in ; or full whether and profitable we are possession to continue , , shall in our be cumbersome at once adopted harness in Eng for
their another attention generation to devote or two to , in the order great that game our of ministers in and may out _, have without all the dailconveni
being of plagued the whole with mass matters of the which nation onl . y concern y - ence It is clear that the question can only be carried by the action of
the educated middle classes . The governments of all parties , intent onlpolitical questions—that ison parti / questions- —always
y on , outcry object that for it there How is no long popular will it pressure be before in favor there of is thi an s change outcry , for no
in anything a manner which . not onl directl y creates connected a convenience with food and , wages promotes , or education opinions ? , y
the We fifth might book as well of Euclid expect against an outcry the the of slovenl ten pound y substitute of decimal voters s in reckoning which favor are of
is offcen certain used , . thoug But h for it can all that neither , ex superiority cite quarrels , briberies , nor intimidations ; and every person who lends assistance in its
establishment , is a public benefactor . ADe M
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264 Decimal Coinage.
264 _DECIMAL COINAGE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/48/
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