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And yet who dreams this day of raising his voice against the study?

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

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The time is come for studying the moral anatomy of man also, and for uncovering its most afflicting aspects, with the view of providing remedies.

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

It is a remarkable fact in the history of science, that the more extended human knowledge has become, the more limited human power, in that respect, has constantly appeared.

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

Society prepares the crime, and the guilty are only the instruments by which it is executed.

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

But is the anatomy of man not a more painful science still?

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

We must conceive the same distinctions in the moral world.

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

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