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must now be sent by private convey- 
ance or not at all. Circulars are 
prohibited likewise except to the 
rich. There is no end to the incon- 
veniences to which the public is lia- 
ble by these illiberal and preposter- 
ous arrangements. A letter of half 
a sheet pays like a sheet, but half a 
printed sheet pays four times as 
much as a single printed sheet. Is 
it not unjust and abominable. 
They have probably originated in 
want of information in the legisla- 
tors on the subject, and above all in 
the fact that they being free of post- 
age do not feel all the evils of this 
system. Let them be taxed too and 
they then would perhaps think of 
the people they tax, and who pay 
them to make good laws, neither 
useless nor vexatious. 
Another abominable and useless 
tax is that on double letters, or ra- 
ther inclosures of drafts or money, 
whereby the rich can afford to send 
his large remittances, and the poor, 
or whoever wants to send or receive 
small remittances, is prohibited by 
the following shameful taxes. 
To send a draft or bill or § 1 in- 
cluding the letter 25 per cent, if far 
50 per cent ! ! ! 
To send g 5, 5 or 10 per cent. 
To send 8 10, only Mk or 5 per 
cent. 
To send g 100, only i or $ per 
cent!!! 
This falls heavy on all publishers 
of periodicals and many other trad es. 
It is preposterous and intolerable, 
since there is no more trouble in the 
delivery of letters with inclosureS. 
It ought to be remedied. All money 
9 sent by mail to be free or liable to a 
tax of one per cent only, one cent 
on one dollar, and one dollar on one 
hundred. This would be just at 
least. Or else the franking privilege 
to and fro of postmasters ought to 
be extended to editors and authors, 
or all the useful trades who deal and 
depend on small remittances. 
These post office impositions, ex- 
tortions and prohibitions have swell- 
ed this statement so far that the tax- 
es on printers and booksellers must 
be omitted at present. Let us mere- 
ly state the fact that there are hea- 
vy taxes, mostly useless and obnox- 
ious on 1. Foreign books never print- 
ed here. 2. On lead and type metal. 
3, On paper and machinery. 4. On 
wood cuts, copper plates, and litho- 
graphic stones. 5. On paper and 
pasteboard. 6. On skin and parch- 
ment, &c. all which fall on these 
useful trades and the manufacture 
of knowledge, journals and books. 
Besides the charges of taxation, ad- 
vertising, publishing and selling. 
B. Fjranklin, Jr. 
3. Analysis of the Philosophy of 
Pythagoras as promulgated 
2400 years ago . 
God is One: He is within the 
universe and the universe is within 
God. 
God is every where and yet no 
where! He is a circle, the centre of 
which is every where and -circumfe- 
rence. no where. 
God is the soul of the universe: 
the order and harmony through 
which it exists and is preserved. 
God is the great Unit: numbers 
and things emanate from the unit. 
God is universal, inefable, per- 
fect, and the principle of every 
good. 
All what is, exists by number and 
harmony. 
Harmony rules over numbers and 
produces order. 
Harmony is the invisible sun of 
the world. 
Beauty, good, virtue and health,, 
proceed from harmony. 
The science of numbers is holy: 
it is the only certain one. 
The science of bodies is less cer- 
tain; they are evanescent and ever 
changing. 
Nature is a stream that ever 
flows. 
Nature is what may be seen of 
God: it is the body of God. 
God is the soul and life of na- 
ture. 
The material part of nature is 
