CHAPTER II.

ARRANGEMENT AND FORMATION OF THE SERIES. LAWS OF ERROR.

§§ 1, 2. Indication of the nature of a Law of Error or Divergence. 3. Is there necessarily but one such law, 4. Applicable to widely distinct classes of things? 5, 6. This cannot be proved directly by statistics; 7, 8. _Which in certain cases show actual asymmetry._ 9, 10. Nor deductively; 11. Nor by the Method of Least Squares. 12. Distinction between Laws of Error and the Method of Least Squares. 13. Supposed existence of types. 14-16. Homogeneous and heterogeneous classes. 17, 18. _The type in the case of human stature, &c._ 19, 20. The type in mental characteristics. 21, 22. Applications of the foregoing principles and results.