Abstract: Acknowledgements 1. The argument 2. The doctrine of necessity 3. Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats 4. Bureaux 5. The sweet despotism of reason 6. The quantum of sickness 7. The granary of science 8. Suicide is a kind of madness 9. The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation 10. Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value 11. By what majority? 12. The law of large numbers 13. Regimental chests 14. Society prepares the crimes 15. The astronomical conception of society 16. The mineralogical conception of society 17. The most ancient nobility 18. Cassirer's thesis 19. The normal state 20. As real as cosmic forces 21. The autonomy of statistical law 22. A chapter from Prussian statistics 23. A universe of chance Notes Index.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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