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Updated: June 15, 2025
The Buddha's answer is simple and practical: seven-eighths of it would be accepted in every civilized country as a description of the good life. It is not merely external, for it insists on right thought and right aspiration: the motive and temper are as important as the act.
"Then you think the factories could stop it if they chose?" "Oh, the factories be d d! Seven-eighths of the factories are managed by school-masters. They get up their little schedule of prices just as they draw off their 'rules and regulations' for their help, and expect the dealers of the country to dance to their tunes." I thanked him for his kindness and went on my way very well content.
Without attempting to enumerate all the wrongs which embittered the Uitlanders, the more serious of them may be summed up in this way: 1. That they were heavily taxed and provided about seven-eighths of the revenue of the country.
He stood, for I repeat it, to take the picture of him in at one view, with his body swayed, and somewhat bent forwards, his right leg from under him, sustaining seven-eighths of his whole weight, the foot of his left leg, the defect of which was no disadvantage to his attitude, advanced a little, not laterally, nor forwards, but in a line betwixt them; his knee bent, but that not violently, but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty; and I add, of the line of science too; for consider, it had one eighth part of his body to bear up; so that in this case the position of the leg is determined, because the foot could be no farther advanced, or the knee more bent, than what would allow him, mechanically to receive an eighth part of his whole weight under it, and to carry it too.
Far away I looked toward our Sun; it sparkled like a tiny star, and none of the planets of our Solar System were visible. I paused not at Dubhe, but sped onward to one of the busy worlds that revolve around it, which I shall call Plasden. This is two hundred times as large as our world, and "slin" covers seven-eighths of its surface.
The most interesting part of his family was three beautiful daughters, the eldest of whom was married to a person now in New York. She was fairer than seven-eighths of those ladies who term themselves aristocracy in Charleston, and promenade King street in the afternoon. "She removed to New York with her husband, who now resides in that city, engaged in lucrative and respectable business.
"September wheat now seventy-one seven-eighths, seven-eighths, three-quarters, seven-eighths split, now the three-quarter, five-eighths, a half, a half, five-eighths, a half, a half again, three-eighths, a quarter, an eighth, a quarter, an eighth, a quarter, an eighth, an eighth, a quarter split, an eighth,
The year before that invention the United States exported less than one hundred and forty thousand pounds of cotton; the year after it, nearly half a million pounds; the next year over a million and a half; a year later still, over six million; by 1800, nearly eighteen million pounds a year. And by 1845 the United States was producing producing seven-eighths of the world's cotton.
That the whole number of the slaves in the island of Jamaica in 1768 was about 167,000, in 1774 about 193,000, and in 1787 about 256,000: that by comparing these numbers with the numbers imported and retained in the said island during all these years, and making proper allowances, the annual excess of deaths above births was in the proportion of about seven-eighths per cent.; that in the first six years of this period it was in the proportion of rather more than one on every hundred; that in the last thirteen years of the same it was in the proportion of about three-fifths on every hundred; and that a number of slaves, amounting to fifteen thousand, perished during the latter period in consequence of repeated hurricanes, and of the want of foreign supplies of provisions.
The countenance of Boniface Newt beamed upon the customer as if he saw good notes at six months exuding from every part of his person. "Good-morning, Mr. Hadley. Charming morning, Sir beautiful day, Sir. What's the word this morning, Sir?" "Nothing, nothing," returned the customer. "Pretty print that. If it's the right width, it's just the thing. Let me see that's about seven-eighths."
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