To write its history humanly, not statistically, would be to reveal an important chapter in the national drama for the past forty years,-a drama buried in dusty archives, in auditors' reports, vouchers, mortgage deeds, general orders, etc.
"Together"
Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
Whitaker's British Almanac publishes, statistically, the drinking propensities of the population of the three kingdoms, from which it appears that there were consumed per head in 1869- Malt 1,989 bushels in England.
"The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner"
John Wilkinson
A university degree, a daily bath, the owning of thirty pairs of trousers, a knowledge of Wagner's music, a pew in church, anything, in short, that implies more means and better nurture than the mass of laborers enjoy, can be statistically palmed off as a magic-spell conferring all sorts of privileges.
"The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors"
George Bernard Shaw