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Excerpt from An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics
History of the Origin and Progress 3 of the work, he tells us, Many people were at first surprised at my using the new words, Statistics and Statistical, as it was supposed that some term in our own language might have expressed the same meaning. But in the course of a very extensive tour, through the northern parts of Eurppe, which I happened to take in 1786, I found that in Germany they were engaged in a species of political enquiry, to which they had given the name of Statistics;4 as I thought that a new word might attract more public attention, I resolved on adopting it, and I hepe that it is now completely naturalised and incorporated with our language. This hope was certainly justified, but the meaning of the word underwent rapid development during the half century or so following its introduction.
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