The Political Euclid [1/2]
Lord Palmerston, Late Professor of Toryism, but now Lecturer on Whiggery to the College of St Stephen's
Genre: | Essay, Spoof, Serial |
Subjects: | Mathematics, Politics, Government |
Putatively by the statesman Henry J Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston), this guide to 'the best mode of getting a place for your relations' is a list of definitions of terms used in politics, all of which are parodies of geometrical propositions. For example, 'a line in politics is interest without principle' and 'an obtuse angle is that in which the inclination is evidently to the Treasury'. | |
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