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    The Census in Moscow
    The Census in Moscow
    The Census in Moscow
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    The Census in Moscow

    By Isabel Florence Hapgood and Leo Tolstoy

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Census in Moscow - Isabel Florence Hapgood

      Article on the Census in Moscow, by Count Lyof N. Tolstoi

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      Lyof N. Tolstoi, Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

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      Title: Article on the Census in Moscow

      Author: Count Lyof N. Tolstoi

      Release Date: December 27, 2007 [eBook #3540]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARTICLE ON THE CENSUS IN MOSCOW***

      Transcribed from the 1887 Tomas Y. Crowell What to do? edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      MOSCOW CENSUS—FROM WHAT TO DO?

      ARTICLE ON THE CENSUS IN MOSCOW. [1882.]

      The object of a census is scientific.  A census is a sociological investigation.  And the object of the science of sociology is the happiness of the people.  This science and its methods differ sharply from all other sciences.

      Its peculiarity lies in this, that sociological investigations are not conducted by learned men in their cabinets, observatories and laboratories, but by two thousand people from the community.  A second peculiarity is this, that the investigations of other sciences are not conducted on living people, but here living people are the subjects.  A third peculiarity is, that the aim of every other science is simply knowledge, while here it is the good of the people.  One man may investigate a nebula, but for the investigation of Moscow, two thousand persons are necessary.  The object of the study of nebulæ is merely that we may know about nebulæ; the object of the study of inhabitants is that sociological laws may be deduced, and that, on the foundation of these laws, a better life for the people may be established.  It makes no difference to the nebula whether it is studied or not, and it has waited long, and is ready to wait a great while longer; but it is not a matter of indifference to the inhabitants of Moscow, especially to those unfortunates

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