Mr. Giffen, for example, in his address, as President of the statistical Society, on 20th November, 1883, compares the condition of the working classes to-day with their condition half a century since, and concludes from official returns that while the sovereign goes as far as it did then in the purchase of commodities, money wages have increased from 30 to 100 per cent.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Mr. Gradgrind proceeded to ask a few questions of the pupils, who in this new school were to be known by numbers-so much more statistical and mathematical-and not by their names.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
statistical facts may convince but they do not compel.
"Psycho-Phone Messages"
Francis Grierson