"But now the means of support decided on for the people are not sufficient for the support of their parents or for the support of their wives and children. In good years they live a bitter life while in bad years they can not escape death.

Now, the livelihood of the people is so regulated, that, above, they have not sufficient wherewith to serve their parents, and, below, they have not sufficient wherewith to support their wives and children. Notwithstanding good years, their lives are continually embittered, and, in bad years, they do not escape perishing.

To-day the living of the people is so ordered that they have not enough to serve their father and mother above, nor enough to keep their wife and children below. In a glad year their whole life is bitterness, and in a bad year they cannot escape death and

"But now, with you securing their livelihood, the people never have enough to serve their parents or nurture their wives and children. In good years they live miserable lives, and in bad years they starve to death.

At present the mode of regulating the supplies of the people is such, that when they look up, they have not sufficient to nourish their parents, and when they look down, they have not enough to feed their wives and children. In plentiful years, they all suffer distress, and in times of scarcity they have not the means of escaping death.