America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob...
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob...
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob...
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob...
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Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, published a paper in 1834 in which he claimed that the average height of French women had increased by 10 centimeters in 100 years. This finding led him to begin studying other nationalities’ reported data on the growth of their populations. From there, he started developing his law of large numbers, which he believed could predict social trends based on the number of observations.

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