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"To wit: the power of always being master of himself; of profiting more or less, under all circumstances, by every event, however fortuitous; in short, of having within himself a cold and disinterested other self, who looks on as a spectator at all the changes of life, noting our passions and our sentiments, and whispering to us in every case the judgment of a sort of moral ready-reckoner."
He would put you in a set of twenty-seven volumes of the History of the World for fifty-three dollars, or he would open his valise and sell you a ready-reckoner for six bits.
"Is there anything I can do for you, Lady Linlithgow?" "Do you know about figures?" "Oh, yes. I consider myself quite a ready-reckoner." "Can you make two and two come to five on one side of the sheet, and only come to three on the other?" "I'm afraid I can't do that, and prove it afterwards." "Then you ain't worth anything to me."
Morgan went over and put his hand on the great lad's shoulder, with a show of friendly condescension. "What would the world be without its jokes?" he asked. And then, before anybody could answer: "It'd be like home without a mother." Joe faced him, a slow grin spreading back to his ears. "Or a ready-reckoner," said he. Morgan's laugh that time was unfeigned.
We would say that it is self-evident, that by the law of addition it is double, and by the law of multiplication twice the number. But it is not so exact as that, nor so self-evident. When we are dealing with men, our ready-reckoner rules do not work out correctly. In this region one and one are not always two. They are sometimes more than two, and sometimes less than two.
The world was to them no more than they could see of it, and the needs of their lives and their longings save in some adventurer who developed among them now and then went no farther than the limit of their vision. The ready-reckoner was, therefore, the money-maker for Morgan, who seemed to carry an inexhaustible supply.
Taking pleasure as a simple and ultimate notion he affirms that our conduct is always determined by a balance of pleasure on one side or the other. The problem of practical ethics is to construct a calculus of pleasures, a sort of ready-reckoner whereby men may be able to invest in the most profitable course of action. "When we have a hedonistic calculus with its senior wranglers," says Mr.
Isom could guess to a hundredweight the contents of a stack of hay, and there never was a banker in this world that could outfigure him on interest. He had no more need for a ready-reckoner than a centipede has of legs. Morgan, seeing that nothing but money would talk there, produced the week's charge on the spot, and drove off to his day's canvassing well satisfied.
Now take the number and follow it through the history of religions by means of some theological ready-reckoner, such as a cheap dictionary by Migne. You will be sure to find something to your purpose i.e., something sufficiently bad. Place that significance against the use of that number in Masonry.
I must not admit the idealistic conception that the mere shooting of my father might possibly make me unhappy. We are to judge of every individual case as it arises, apparently without any social summary or moral ready-reckoner at all. "The Golden Rule is that there is no Golden Rule." We must not say that it is right to keep promises, but that it may be right to keep this promise.
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