“When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.”

— Ian Hacking

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 12, Political Arithmetic, p. 103.

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“When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.”

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