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- Frontmatter
- PUBLISHERS' NOTICE
- Contents
- PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION, BY M. QUETELET
- INTRODUCTORY
- BOOK FIRST DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF MAN
- CHAPTER I OF BIRTHS IN GENERAL, AND OF FECUNDITY
- CHAPTER II OF THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL CAUSES ON THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS
- CHAPTER III OF THE INFLUENCE OF DISTURBING CAUSES ON THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS
- CHAPTER IV OF STILL-BORN CHILDREN
- CHAPTER V OF THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL CAUSES ON MORTALITY
- CHAPTER VI OF THE INFLUENCE OF DISTURBING CAUSES ON MORTALITY
- CHAPTER VII RELATIONS OF POPULATION TO SOCIAL PROSPERITY
- BOOK SECOND
- BOOK THIRD
- BOOK FOURTH OF THE PROPERTIES OF THE AVERAGE MAN, OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM, AND OF THE FINAL ADVANCEMENT OF THIS STUDY
- AUTHOR'S APPENDIX
- TRANSLATOR'S APPENDIX
- Plate section
CHAPTER VII - RELATIONS OF POPULATION TO SOCIAL PROSPERITY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
- Frontmatter
- PUBLISHERS' NOTICE
- Contents
- PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION, BY M. QUETELET
- INTRODUCTORY
- BOOK FIRST DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF MAN
- CHAPTER I OF BIRTHS IN GENERAL, AND OF FECUNDITY
- CHAPTER II OF THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL CAUSES ON THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS
- CHAPTER III OF THE INFLUENCE OF DISTURBING CAUSES ON THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS
- CHAPTER IV OF STILL-BORN CHILDREN
- CHAPTER V OF THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL CAUSES ON MORTALITY
- CHAPTER VI OF THE INFLUENCE OF DISTURBING CAUSES ON MORTALITY
- CHAPTER VII RELATIONS OF POPULATION TO SOCIAL PROSPERITY
- BOOK SECOND
- BOOK THIRD
- BOOK FOURTH OF THE PROPERTIES OF THE AVERAGE MAN, OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM, AND OF THE FINAL ADVANCEMENT OF THIS STUDY
- AUTHOR'S APPENDIX
- TRANSLATOR'S APPENDIX
- Plate section
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- A Treatise on Man and the Development of his Faculties , pp. 48 - 57Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1842