Statistics, which first secured prestige here by a supposedly impartial utterance of stark fact, have enlarged their dominion over the American consciousness by becoming the most powerful statement of the "ought" — displacers of moral imperatives, personal ideals, and unfulfilled objectives.


The Decline of Radicalism, Chapter I (p. 19), Random House, Inc. 1969

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Statistics, which first secured prestige here by a supposedly impartial utterance of stark fact, have enlarged their dominion over the American...

Statistics, which first secured prestige here by a supposedly impartial utterance of stark fact, have enlarged their dominion over the American...

Statistics, which first secured prestige here by a supposedly impartial utterance of stark fact, have enlarged their dominion over the American...

Statistics, which first secured prestige here by a supposedly impartial utterance of stark fact, have enlarged their dominion over the American...