The argument -- The doctrine of necessity -- Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats -- Bureaux -- The sweet despotism of reason -- The quantum of sickness -- The granary of science -- Suicide is a kind of madness -- The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation -- Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value -- By what majority? -- The law of large numbers -- Regimental chests -- Society prepares the crimes -- The astronomical conception of society -- The mineralogical conception of society -- The most ancient nobility -- Cassirer's thesis -- The normal state -- As real as cosmic forces -- The autonomy of statistical law -- A chapter from Prussian statistics -- A universe of change.
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