“The analysis of the moral man through his actions, and of the intellectual man through his productions, seems”

—  Adolphe Quetelet

Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: The analysis of the moral man through his actions, and of the intellectual man through his productions, seems to me calculated to form one of the most interesting parts of the sciences of observation, applied to anthropology.

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Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociolo… 1796–1874

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