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Chapter 10. Containing the whole Science of Government

           

           BecausetheCircumlocutionOfficewentonmechanically,everyday,keepingthiswonderful,all-sufficientwheelofstatesmanship,Hownottodoit,inmotion.BecausetheCircumlocutionOfficewasdownuponanyill-advisedpublicservantwhowasgoingtodoit,orwhoappearedtobebyanysurprisingaccidentinremotedangerofdoingit,withaminute,andamemorandum,andaletterofinstructionsthatextinguishedhim.ItwasthisspiritofnationalefficiencyintheCircumlocutionOfficethathadgraduallyledtoitshavingsomethingtodowitheverything.Mechanicians,naturalphilosophers,soldiers,sailors,petitioners,memorialists,peoplewithgrievances,peoplewhowantedtopreventgrievances,peoplewhowantedtoredressgrievances,jobbingpeople,jobbedpeople,peoplewhocouldn’tgetrewardedformerit,andpeoplewhocouldn’tgetpunishedfordemerit,wereallindiscriminatelytuckedupunderthefoolscappaperoftheCircumlocutionOffice.

           NumbersofpeoplewerelostintheCircumlocutionOffice.Unfortunateswithwrongs,orwithprojectsforthegeneralwelfare(andtheyhadbetterhavehadwrongsatfirst,thanhavetakenthatbitterEnglishrecipeforcertainlygettingthem),whoinslowlapseoftimeandagonyhadpassedsafelythroughotherpublicdepartments;who,accordingtorule,hadbeenbulliedinthis,over-reachedbythat,andevadedbytheother;gotreferredatlasttotheCircumlocutionOffice,andneverreappearedinthelightofday.

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