Adolphe Quetelet Quote

I have sought to determine... the different relations of bulk, subsisting between the various parts of his frame; and to ascertain how far these relations become modified during his development, what they are in the flower of his age, and in what position they remain up to the instant of decay.

Preface of M. Quetelet - A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)