 | 1840 - 582 páginas
...may be the vital one on which all are turned. Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences ; but it...are ; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on." If tables be cobwebs, the world of the past is an empty pageant. If tables be cobwebs, there is no... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1891 - 464 páginas
...out may be the vital one on which all turned. Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences ; but it is not to be earned on by steam, this science, any more than others are ; a wise head is requisite for carrying... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 páginas
...out may be the vital one on which all turned. Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it...is requisite for carrying it on. Conclusive facts arc inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. Chartism (1839)... | |
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... abstractions, and the object a most concrete one, so difficult to read the essence of. There are innumerable circumstances; and one circumstance left out may be the vital one on which all turned. Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable,... 