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compared with those derived by calculation, from a purely theoretical
hypothesis:—
Height of Men
Number of men
Inches
Measured
Calculated
Under 61.8
28620
26345
61.8 to 62.9
11580
13182
62.9 to 63.9
13990
14502
63.9 to 65.0
14410
13982
65.0 to 66.1
11410
11803
66.1 to 67.1
8780
8725
67.1 to 68.2
5530
5527
68.2 to 69.3
3190
3187
Above 69.3
2490
2645
The greatest differences are in the lowest ranks. They include the men
who were rejected from being too short for the army. M. Quetelet boldly
ascribes these differences to the effect of fraudulent returns. It certainly
seems that men have been improperly taken out of the second rank and put
into the first, in order to exempt them from service. Be this as it may, the
coincidence of fact with theory is, in this instance also, quite close enough
to serve my purpose.
I argue from the results obtained from Frenchmen and from Scotchmen,
that, if we had measurements of the adult males in the British Isles, we
should find those measurements to range in close accordance with the law
of deviation from an average, although our population is as much mingled as
I described that of Scotland to have been, and although Ireland is mainly
peopled with Celts. Now, if this be the case with stature, then it will be true
as regards every other physical feature —as circumference of head, size of
brain, weight of grey matter, number
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