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§ 16. A farther large proportion of energy and matter is prema- 
turely dissipated and disintegrated by various agencies, and at various 
stages of development, and thus never becomes used at all. Such 
premature dissipation is termed loss, and of course needs to be 
balanced against the gain recorded in the two preceding tables. The 
1. Physical agencies, eng., 
Avalanche. 
Earthquake. 
Volcano. 
Flood. 
Storm, &c. 
2. Biological agencies, eng.. 
Insects. 
Fungi, &c. 
3. Social agencies, e.g., 
Crime. 
War. 
Folly, &c. 
§ 1 7. The second axiom — that a society consists of living organ- 
isms — leads us to the classification of their statistics. These 
arrange themselves in a way very analogous to that used for 
the statistics of territory (see p. 305, and Tables A I., II., III.) 
as follows : — 
details arrange themselves as follows : — 
f 1. Of raw materials 
i 
2. In exploitation 
3. In manufacture 
Loss ^ L In transport 
5. In exchange 
6. Of ultimate products 
7. In remedial effort 
"by 
C. Organisms composing society . 
I. Number at given time. 
1. Surviving since last unit time. 
2. Added since last unit time. 
(a) By birth. 
(b) By immigration. 
siderable number of minor tables, and are therefore omitted, as tending to 
exceed the limits and divert attention from the main purpose of the present 
paper. 
