Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in arithmetical ratio.
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