But, if the hundred millions raised in this way, relieve you of other taxes to the same amount, you go into foreign markets with all your advantages, and even with more, if this duty has occasioned less embarrassment and expense.
-- I will reflect on this.

So now the salt, postage and customs are regulated.

Is all ended there?
-- I am just beginning.
-- Pray, initiate me in your Utopian ideas.
-- I have lost sixty millions on salt and postage.

I shall regain them through the customs; which also gives me something more precious.
-- What, pray?
-- International relations founded on justice, and a probability of peace which is equivalent to a certainty.

I will disband the army.
-- The whole army?
-- Except special branches, which will be voluntarily recruited, like all other professions.