lled
into play, and the radical axis is a standing menace to the stability of
States and nations. The only way to counteract its baneful, disturbing
influence is to increase the attraction of the monarch on the
individual, which nullifies the former force, and prevents further
mischief. This is the method which nature itself adopts in the motions
of the planetary worlds; the attraction of the sun prevents any
disturbance which might be caused in the course of the planets by the
action of centrifugal force, and nature suggests this plan for our
adoption. Increase the attraction of the Throne; rigidly connect each
individual by the strong chords of affection, advantage and utility with
the ruling power; and then, though the radical axis may be there, it
will cease to indicate any motion along it, it will not prevail over the
counteracting influence of loyalty, and the stability of the social
system and the happiness of the individuals will be the results.

'I would serve my King,
Serve him with all my fortune here at home,
And serve him with my person in the wars;
Watch for him, fight for him, bleed for him, die for him,
As every true-born subject ought.'

This, most noble professors, is the language of true patriotic loyalty.
Let the monarch be loved and loving, let the laws be just and equal,
happy will be the people, prosperous the realm. There are those who
counsel different things, and preach sedition and the breaking-up of
laws; but those who advocate such doctrines lack that judicial
mathematical training which we, students and professors of Girtham
College, have acquired. If polemical mathematics, the science of the
future, should become more widely studied; if its results were
disseminated far and wide; above all, if the proper position which women
ought to occupy in the counsels of the nation were assigned to them, we
should hear less of these wild schemes and foolish theories, and the
influence of women would tend greatly to promote the stability and
security of the State.

Why, let me ask, should woman be excluded from that position which is so
justly hers? from those duties which she can discharge so faithfully? It
has been said that if we wish to know the political and moral condition
of a State, we must ask what rank women hold in it. We are told that
women have more strength in their looks than men have in their laws.
Why, then, do men debar her from those fields of occ