Formulas and Tables for applying Profits to converting Whole-Life Policies into Endowment Assurances, and to Making Endowment Assurances payable at an earlier Age

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There is one portion of the history of life assurance which I suppose could never be accurately written: I refer to the origin of the various forms of assurances, of the various plans of distributing or appropriating the surplus, and the authors and dates of discovery of many of the formulas; in fact, the history of the science of life assurance in contradistinction to the history of the business and its development.