Ninety-seven years later another tontine, or scale of annuities, on the basis of the same expectation of life as in the previous century, was issued.

These latter annuitants, however, lived so much longer than their predecessors, that it proved to be a very costly loan for the government.

It was found that, while ten thousand of each sex in the first tontine died under the age of twenty-eight, only five thousand seven hundred and seventy-two males and six thousand four hundred and sixteen females in the second tontine died at the same age, one hundred years later." We have been comparing the spiritual with the practical, the imaginary with the real.

The maxims that have been followed in the earlier and the later period produced their inevitable result.

In the former that maxim was, "Ignorance is the mother of Devotion in the latter, Knowledge is Power.".