Note 1 — Chapter II · THE STATISTICIANS.
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
“The question of the effect of wealth or poverty upon morality presents more difficulty than one would suspect at first glance. To study it it would be necessary to determine the ratio of the indigent and pauper class in each department. Some documents upon the subject have been published, it is true, but they have no authentic character, and do not appear to merit enough confidence for us to give the analysis of them here.”1