Excerpt from The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, Vol. 4: Part II., Sta-Wri, 1849-1852The meaning attached to the words statism and statist, in the writings Of poets, essayists, and. Dramatists, bears out the view just put forward of the proper signification of the term statistics. Mil ton, for instance, Speaks of statists and lawyers, and elsewhere uses the term in the sense of a man having political power and in¿uence. Ford also uses the word in this latter sense. South speaks of persons who called our religion statism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.