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Excerpt from Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, Vol. 31: January, 1894-January, 1895 The Rules constitute a Literature of their own, and register ideas and standards of conduct current at various stages of our development. Some, in their endeavours to define all rights and provide for all possible cases are models of a lengthy, but futile, precision; in others, the Puritan cast, the reflection of the strong minds and stern beliefs of their framers, is very apparent. Such mundane matters, as the sufficiency of the rates of Contribution and provision for periodical adjustments of the several pecuniary interests, stand aside for peremptory regulations prescribing the moral demeanour. Whoever, declared the Rules of a West Country Society, profanes the most holy name of God, shall be fined - Sixpence. Casuists must decide whether the crime and the penalty were in due relation; but, the intention was as obvious as, probably, the necessity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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