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Statistics (n.) however ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠wretched raise the veil just enough to let us glimpse the Medusa's head behind it.

Statistics (n.) on ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠farming were stubbornly resisted by English farmers, because whatever the landlord could measure, he could take as rent.

Statistics (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠pauperism grow more misleading the more class-consciousness grows, as workers prefer starving to the workhouse.

Statistics (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not test a Proudhonist's theory; it shows he has not mastered the facts and can only play with them.

Statistics (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the English intention to deceive exclude from factory law, as not factory workers, the engineers and mechanics, while the parliamentary Returns include as factory workers not only those but managers, salesmen, messengers, warehousemen and packers, everybody except the owner of the factory himself.