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Excerpt from Area and Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census
This Study is the first part Of a projected Introduction to the Social Statistics of the United States. It will be followed shortly by another on the Density and Bistri bution of their population. From this standpoint the prefatory chapter should be judged. Both Studies are the outcome of lectures on Social Statistics Ofiered to university undergraduates and are published primarily for their convenience, but may be suggestive to others eu gaged in teaching or studying the subject. The writer's conception of statistics is that it is a method of giving pre cision to knowledge by making quantitative and verifiable statements possible in some fields where they have been precluded. The comparative insignificance for social science of the topics which the statistical method frees from the subjectivity of personal opinion or individual Observation should not blind one to the important fact that this method contributes to make progress in knowl edge possible by liberating certain aspects of it from the labyrinth Of personal and unverifiable argument.
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