“Literametrics' may become to philology, what 'Biometrics' has already become to the biological sciences.”

— Robert Edouard Moritz

Robert E. Moritz, " On the Significance of Characteristic Curves of Composition https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_65/June_1904/On_the_Significance_of_Characteristic_Curves_of_Composition," Popular Science Monthly 65 (June 1904), as cited in: Benjamin Morgan (2017), The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature. p. 236

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