Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint) download ebook
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint) download ebook
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint) by Historic Society of Lancashire Cheshire
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Author: Historic Society of Lancashire Cheshire
Number of Pages: 634 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781330793664
File size: 9 Mb
Download Link: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 12 It will be admitted, pretty generally, that the subject of Ecclesiastical statistics is a difficult and delicate one. Each religious body looks at facts through a medium of its own interposing; and each is anxious to show its importance by its numbers. With a few understood exceptions, the smaller the body, the greater is the anxiety on this subject: for any given number, - say 1,000 or 10,000, - forms a large fractional part of a small community, but is inappreciable in a very large one. As a matter of course, the subject is sometimes made controversial, when in reality it belongs to numerical inquiries which demand the calmest investigation: and it is a common practice to put forward done aspect of the subject only, - viz. that which is most favourable to the views of the speaker or writer, - and to omit, designedly, all that is contradictory or corrective. Thus, errors and prejudices are increased; and truth, when found at all, is reached by slow and difficult steps, instead of with speed and facility. It is well known, that one of the most dexterous modes of propagating error is to state a truth partially, or to omit one or more facts of a set: so that every word spoken or written may be strictly true, so far as it goes, and every idea conveyed may be absolutely false. This may be done in numerical inquiries as well as in others, by merely dropping some indispensable element, by ignoring some condition of the question, without which a correct solution is impossible. In ordinary circumstances, I should shrink from an inquiry with which the interests and passions of men are so much bound up; and sometimes also their party feelings. The present occasion is, however, exceptional. The subject is important in itself, and it assumes increasing interest at the moment when we begin to prepare for another decennial census. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint) by Historic Society of Lancashire Cheshire
Author: Historic Society of Lancashire Cheshire
Number of Pages: 634 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781330793664
File size: 9 Mb
Download Link: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 12 It will be admitted, pretty generally, that the subject of Ecclesiastical statistics is a difficult and delicate one. Each religious body looks at facts through a medium of its own interposing; and each is anxious to show its importance by its numbers. With a few understood exceptions, the smaller the body, the greater is the anxiety on this subject: for any given number, - say 1,000 or 10,000, - forms a large fractional part of a small community, but is inappreciable in a very large one. As a matter of course, the subject is sometimes made controversial, when in reality it belongs to numerical inquiries which demand the calmest investigation: and it is a common practice to put forward done aspect of the subject only, - viz. that which is most favourable to the views of the speaker or writer, - and to omit, designedly, all that is contradictory or corrective. Thus, errors and prejudices are increased; and truth, when found at all, is reached by slow and difficult steps, instead of with speed and facility. It is well known, that one of the most dexterous modes of propagating error is to state a truth partially, or to omit one or more facts of a set: so that every word spoken or written may be strictly true, so far as it goes, and every idea conveyed may be absolutely false. This may be done in numerical inquiries as well as in others, by merely dropping some indispensable element, by ignoring some condition of the question, without which a correct solution is impossible. In ordinary circumstances, I should shrink from an inquiry with which the interests and passions of men are so much bound up; and sometimes also their party feelings. The present occasion is, however, exceptional. The subject is important in itself, and it assumes increasing interest at the moment when we begin to prepare for another decennial census. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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