Trade, Population and Food

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Excerpt from Trade, Population and Food: A Series of Papers on Economic Statistics If it savour somewhat of presumption thus to place before the public a series of papers which with a few exceptions have already appeared in the published Proceedings of various Societies, the apology to be offered is that in the opinion of friends, the accuracy of whose judgment it would be still more presumptuous to dispute, their appearance is justified by the importance of the subjects of which they treat. These friends know that the information they contain has been honestly and laboriously collected, and though the conclusions which the figures are employed to support may not altogether meet with unchallenged acceptance, they think the facts are yet worthy of attention as evidence towards the working out of problems of the highest interest. It was at first intended to rewrite the whole of the papers, bringing down the figures compiled for the earlier to the date of the later ones, and eliminating from each whatever had been introduced into the others, so reducing the bulk of the volume, and giving greater completeness to the whole. It was, however, found that to do this would involve the preparation of a mass of new figures which would not have altered the reasoning of which they were the basis, involving great labour without any corresponding advantage. 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.