By reading, I found there were good books in these two sciences in Latin; I bought a dictionary, and I learned Latin.

I understood, also, that there were good books of the same kind in French; I bought a dictionary, and I learned French.

It seems to me that one does not need to know anything more than the twenty-four letters to learn everything else that one wishes."-- Edmund Stone to the Duke of Argyll.

('Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties.') "The British Census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half million in the home countries.

What makes this census important is the quality of the units that compose it.