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40 ECONOMIC INQUIRIES AND STUDIES
ideas which colour literature and philosophy, which
has been our theme to-night, is the result of a sys-
tematic collection of statistics, which commenced only
eighty years ago, and which is still extremely deficient.
We may reasonably hope for more light from statistics
as time passes by, and as it becomes possible to draw
out comparisons over longer periods. The statisticians
of the present day labour for the future, and we need
not be discouraged if in many departments we have
yet to wait for results. [1882. J .
