THE POLITICAL EUCLID.—NO. 2.
PROP. I.—PROBLEM.
To describe an Independent Member upon a given indefinite line of politics.
Let C R, or Conservative Reform, be the given indefinite line—it is required to describe on C R an independent member.
With the centre Reform, and at the distance of Conservatism, describe G B and M—or Graham, Brougham, and Melbourne—the extremes of the Whig Administration of 1834.
With the centre Conservatism, and at the distance of Reform, describe G B and P—or Graham, Buckingham, and Peel—the extremes of the Tory Administration of 1841.