You may have observed that the men wear letters in red or white, and numbers on the capes of their coats.

By the letters the passenger can refer to the company of the officer, while the number indicates the individual.
Now, the idea of this improvement came, I make no doubt, from our system, under which society is divided into castes, for the sake of harmony and subordination, and these castes are designated by colors and shades of colors that are significant of their stations and pursuits--the individual, as in the new police, being known by the number.

Our own language being exceedingly sententious, is capable of expressing the most elaborate of these combinations in a very few sounds.

I should add that there is no difference in the manner of distinguishing the sexes, with the exception that each is numbered apart, and each has a counterpart color to that of the same caste in the other sex.

Thus purple and violet are both noble, the former being masculine and the latter feminine, and russet being the counterpart of brown-study color." "And--excuse my natural ardor to know more--and do you bear these numbers and colors marked on your attire in your own region ?" "As for attire, Sir John, the monikins are too highly improved, mentally and physically, to need any.