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. - William Petty

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William Petty: "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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Bills	Birth	Births	Burials
Calculations	Conjectures	Deduce	Impaired
Ingenious	Keeping	Knowledge	Laborious
Number	People	Preposterous	Principle
Scope	True	Very	Wherefore
Whole	Without

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