Hitherto, the science of Man has been limited to researches... respecting some of its laws, to results deduced from single or insulated observations, and to theories often based on mere glimpses; and these constitute pretty nearly all the materials it possesses.

— Adolphe Quetelet A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)

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