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which it holds within its dark recesses ? —and who can look at these things, 
no longer matter of conjecture, but ascertained, classed, and tabled, without 
haying the desire awakened or strengthened to do something towards reme- 
dying the evils thus revealed, and without feeling himself guided and assisted 
towards a remedy? Yet here, more than in other eases, should a man suspect 
himsel.; here should he guard himself against hasty conclusions, drawn fnmi 
the first, appearance ul the results; for here are disturbing influences most 
busily at work, not only from without, but from within,— not only in the 
nature of the facts themselves, but in the feelings, passions, prejudices, habits, 
and moral constitution of the observer. 
Still the tabling of the facts is of infinite importance. If they disturb, m 
ey are sure to do, some feeling, some prejudice, some theory, some convic- 
? JG f, hat a,, y l,mv ,bo &ct9 have to be accounted for; further 
tnoh SnT W .l. i v 1 OV j’ ond a PP‘ 5ar that no correction is required, the 
arid disnnnr, 6 l,sta khshed, a “ d l * ,e hostile theory will, sooner or later, give way 
that the tVmtTf f" *\ KBe ^course, more than usually important 
mature and id . i« 8elect(,d for coUecli . nn should be well as are, in their own 
that the 1 tr l<? circumstances, likely to be ascertained correctly, and 
bias to do TOS . Ca,1 ? Cti0 '! al,,ml11 bL ' hands of those who have no 
believe ££ tI . ,an . laipI * 110 inter(}st *‘.e result: and this was, 1 
great statistical w!,T >i V,ew t *" ,se w bo had the management of our 
still studying • but whetlVr^? 111 Ul " US °“ r , own country, which we are 
already become matter of dtoZZ"""* ^ ^ tlliS ^ 
ever been presented 19 iri U * ,d " u .^ tt!(l ’ 0,,e op fc be greatest monuments that has 
and couditon • coiiini!™! 1°°' as U reco,d oP its °" JI constituent element 
inent, acuteness and >. J ® on,,ne p ted °» "ith singular industry, judge- 
Nor can 1, while tL 'iI ■ the . ( onf l ueror waa of its surface. 
Congress which too^place ft BrUU? 11 ?* aVoi ?. ,eftjrri ng ,0 the Statistical 
mainly for its obieet C at , BruMe )f a ^°ut tins time last year; which hail 
selection of the farts uct ' u nitoraaity- among different nations in the 
ing them; without \» ' ; K ‘> 9 , 0ldd record, und in the manner of record- 
n be esta- 
iniforniitj’ 
“■w- «■ ,«•* 
remove them. ' es ’ tl,at no hammer of the statist is likely to 
removed, is j„ itself' of difference, even if they are not 
alse conclusions, if j t d( J. g P towurds the object. It at least'prevents 
rue ones. It gets rid of sources if pP0V,de tl10 . ra «?ans of establishing the 
tistin* ° u ? scerta iiiiug truth T-k* f rr ° P ’ t Vt n ' l Adi of giving the hill 
case of criminal sta- 
not know' 1,t ,im es or in ditterenf * rat, '' e . P rev aI«iCe of different crimes, 
TtZ ' mder wha ‘ bcads thi iuril C ° U ; ,tnes - ^or this purpose must *e 
amounts ™.P aPed array the various ofTen*^ 8t ?* ,sts °* die times or countries 
uZ the “ P™*lty the, wC™ " „ f e, "' C ’ "rerecorded; with what 
“ d *» "l«t rigour, ft-< 
, 1 w nich is called , , * 
in one counts -I - tho .'' ,s visited bv i,„, 'l“ ch m ™««o. 
rom time to 
assassination iu 
in one country is visited by imprison™ 01 ' 1,1 ~ ,e Countl 7 is punished 
y “ «“>■«, in anotJr “{SSET 1, T1 S bankra P te y 
a civil offence. The j uvenile offences 
