William Petty Quotes
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. 
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It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds.
- William Petty
