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next sixty-four, the next one hundred and twenty- 
eight, the next two hundred and fifty-six, and the 
ninth in this retrocession five hundred and twelve, 
who must be now existing, and all contribute their 
proportion of their future Chevalier de Cincinnatus. 
These, with the rest, make together as follows: 
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One thousand and twenty-two men and women, con- 
tributors to the formation of one knight. And if we 
are to have a thousand of these future knights, there 
must be now and hereafter existing one million and 
twenty-two thousand fathers and mothers who are 
to contribute to their production, unless a part of 
the number are employed in making more knights 
than one. Let us strike off, then, the twenty-two 
thousand, on the supposition of this double employ, 
and then consider whether, after a reasonable esti- 
mation of the number of rogues, and fools, and 
scoundrels, and prostitutes that are mixed with, and 
help to make up, necessarily their million of prede- 
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