“The shadow of death, more strongly even than blood or nation, maketh mankind akin; it arouses sympathy and understanding, which surmount all the barriers of caste and station.”

— Karl Pearson

"The Chances of Death" (1895)

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English mathematician and biometrician 1857–1936

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