STATISTICS

a method of demonstrating facts concerning the social life of man based upon the quantitative observation of aggregates. The term js derived from status, in the sense of state or area of government, and was originally applied to any inquiry cone erning the social or political conditions of the people without any particular regard to quantity. A nation or community naturally changes from minute to minute as regards the individuals composing it, but a careful study of aggregates shows that it po e es certain permanent features, or, at any rate, features that change gradually in a typical manner. The usefulne of figures may at once be admitted, since in a large community no single observer or group of observers can apprehend exactly any great social fact without their aid. ie 45-96 A.D.), Rom. poet of post August an age; 6. Naples; early display ed power of extemporizing; gained olive wreath thrice at Alban games and won patronage of Domitian. Works include The Thebais, a conventional epic deto story of Thebes, loose in convoted rest ruction and often strained, but deemed by exquisite pa ages; one book and a fragment of the Achillets—tedius subject is too _cramped and pecause stereotyped; the Stlvae. thirty-two poems full of beauty, his masterpiece; marred in parts by fulsome flattery of the emperor. §TAUNTON, a city of Illinois, in Macoupin co. It is on the Wabash, the Illinois Traction and other railroads. In the vicinity are important coal mines and oil and gas wells. It has a labor temple. Pop. 1920, 6,027.