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Mr Finlaison ' s name , that the Government Tables ' rested upon the authority of a person whose qualifications for the task undertaken were unknown to" the public / " A most logical ground truly , for repudiating them ! But he omits to state the castigation which he forthwith received from an able hand in the ' Philosophical Magazine / for this very absurd and
derogatory sentence concerning an individual about whom ^ ie fi 3 mit | thit he knows nothing ; and we may add ^ hat Wi acquaintance with tliat individual's ' labours amoupts to verjf pearly the same totality pf ignorance . He further rejqiq £ , "Irr my owp ca ^ e I have , during the last five years , repeate ^ i ] ^ affirmed th $ t these [ the Government ] Tables wer £ not worth tfifc paper on vyhich they have been printed ; whether the result ^ l $ e tfrue or false , is a matter of the utmost indifference . * Ayl
indeed ! Now , for our part , we think true results , d e duced fr 8 tn an immense number ; of facts , are b y no means a matter 9 ^ fp difference as the basis of Tables of Life Annuities . Mor ^ - chtet , if the results were false , the Tables would be worth much fe ¥ srthan the mass of paper that would have been wasted . ' ¦ f appears , then , that this IV | r Edmonds has for five years hooked on to Mr Finlaison , like a barnacle to a West Indiij * | aaif 9 sirid with no greater impediment to the vessel ' s rate of sailing . He says he had two fellow labourers in this work qf
S ^ traction , —namely , the late venerable Mr Morgan , and Mr yVancis Gorbaux , whose n ^ imes , not forgetting himself , he ttib * destl y opposes to those of Mr LubbocH atid Mr Babble . We pray Mr Edmonds / once for all , to desist in future ftpTQ affirming aaytKjng whatever as a fact , inasmuch as Nature ? $£ ms to have denied him the capacity of enunciating truth . wri
^ rhe ty ? 6 ters above-mentioned commented , not on Mr FinlaJson ' s * Ileport containing all the data for his tables , but on U few insulated results gfven in Mr Finlaison ' s evidence befoirfe ihe © baimiti ^^ oii Friehdly Societies , in May 1825 and 1827 . Mr Morgan ^ yas then in the extreme of old age , and , as we ^ rj 5 vidus | y mentioned , he was the person who advised , in 180 $ , die lisfe of ihe Northampton tables , by which the lods of
miflK ) ti ^ had been sustained . ^ ei % y ascertained that Mr Morgan , being in some little spleen at the time , had not , when he Vvrote , seen Mr Finlaisoti h repprt at all . We further say that it was the object o ^ Mjr ?( fo rtaijX in his petition to th p ' House of Commons , dated 20 th MavcK 1829 Vwmch how lies before us , to prevail on Parlia-TOentto ' desist fropi adapting Mr Finlaison ' s tables until the jevidence on w | iich they were founded should be produced . Hfe < pOuld not be aware when he wrote , that stich evidence \ ya 6 to be mMuied on thi aOtVday of the same month , and tlieu ordered Iji ^ pftte ^^ BM Mr tib ^ aux bad retired , I ) ef 6 i » e hfeeveV »^ w
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182 lAUml Mathm&tics .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/56/
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