The dissent of nine seats: the limit of four hundred strikes what could grow before it grows. Torin's workshops today, with three hundred people, cut the gears of the world's clocks; tomorrow, to turn the four hundred and first master away at the door is to send the work to the neighboring country's factory.

The majority's answer has also been recorded: then let it be sent. The great factory makes clocks; it does not keep a ledger.

The minority does not find this answer sufficient and leaves its dissent on the same page as the law.