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Introduction.
stronger testimony for Graunt seeks to correlate the facts and to harmonize the probabilities more completely than has heretofore seemed possible. The opinion that Graunt, and not Petty, was really the author of the "Observations," I hope thus to have raised in the minds even of readers who do not forget Evelyn and Aubrey, to the grade of probability, if not to that of demonstration[1].
- ↑ A large part of this section was originally printed in the Political Science Quarterly, xi. 105—132, and is here used, in revised form, by permission of the editors of that journal.
