Note 5 — Chapter VI · OF DIFFERENT WORLDS
Henry L. (Henry Leopold) Brose translation
Perhaps an analogy will serve to make this clear. Suppose that a certain quantity of some foodstuff is consumed by ⅒ head of population. The false inference would be that a population is possible which has ⅒ heads! In the same way the statistics may be quite correct in arriving at the figure ⅕ suicides, but if we leave the realms of calculation, then the £ suicide loses its meaning entirely.