EXTENSION OF ASSURANCE.--SOCIETY FOR ASSURANCE AGAINST
PURGATORY.--COMMERCIAL CREDIT COMPANY.--GUARANTEE SOCIETY.--MEDICAL,
INVALID, AND GENERAL.--AGRICULTURAL COMPANY.--RENT
GUARANTEE.--RAILWAY PASSENGERS.--LAW PROPERTY, AND INDISPUTABLE
SOCIETIES.--DISPUTED POLICY.
It has been found that there are unchanging principles which regulate
commercial losses; that the lives which are sacrificed by railway
accident have similar conditions; that the storm which levels the
wheat has its defined courses; that the murrain which devastates the
cattle is as fixed in its movements as the disease which destroys
humanity. To meet these casualties, societies have been started,
founded on laws originating in the doctrine of probabilities, and
regulated by tables to show the chance of their occurrence. Nor is
there any reason against--nay, there is every reason to believe
in--their success, provided only their promoters apply themselves with
diligence to collect sufficient data whereby to rule their operations.
Of one society only may a doubt be evinced and a smile raised at its
presumption, and this is the