Journal of the Statistical Society of London, เล่มที่ 24

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Statistical Society., 1861
Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal, demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.

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หน้า 23 - the visitation of God." I do not like to trench upon those matters here; but when I read in my book and in your book, " that it is not the will of our Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish...
หน้า 362 - Let members take care that the accounts are properly audited by men of their own choosing.
หน้า 373 - James, I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor a book of Shakespeare, nor a pianoforte or sheet of music; nor the light of a carcel or other good centre-table or reading-lamp, nor an engraving or copy of any kind, of a work of art of the slightest merit.
หน้า 373 - ... for ostriches — is not bread : neither does even flour, salt, fat, and water, stirred together and warmed, constitute bread ;) no curtains, no lifting windows (three times out of four absolutely no windows), no couch — if one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor — for there were no carpets or mats. For all that, the house swarmed with vermin.
หน้า 361 - Let each member have only one vote, and make no distinction as regards the amount of wealth any member may contribute.
หน้า 24 - But it is a grievous error to suppose that because the children are ragged the institution should be ragged also. To bring such children together in numbers on this principle is to do a direct and serious injury to society. The " sympathy of numbers," if there be not power to direct it to what is good , does but fortify the evil. It is no mean power which is required to deal with such materials; and though a devoted Christian spirit only can labour with...
หน้า 375 - Whatever of civilization, and of the forms, customs and shibboleths of Christianity they were acquiring by example, and through police restraints might, it occurred to me, after all, but poorly compensate the effect of the systematic withdrawal from them of all the usual influences which tend to nourish the moral nature and develop the intellectual faculties, in savages as well as in civilized free men.
หน้า 317 - It is believed that the experience of the past, not only with the railroads but with all industry, and not only in this country but in other parts of the world, shows which course to take.
หน้า 311 - ... consolidated the social fabric in this part of the island, has cleared away a mass of depravity and discontent, has placed the manufacturing enterprise of the country on a safe basis, and has conferred upon us resources against the effects of foreign...
หน้า 21 - On the other hand, carefully-collected statistics reveal to us the fact that, while about 600,000 children, between the ages of three and fifteen, are absent from school, but known to be employed, no less than 2,200,000 are not at school, whose absence cannot be traced to any ascertained employment or other legitimate cause.

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