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fellow. His friend said, 'Cox, when you are a bit older, you will not quote Indian statistics with that assurance. The
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Cox originated the citation which subsequently became known as "Stamp's Law of
Statistics": "The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link. Harold Cox tells a story of his life as a young man in India. He quoted some statistics to a Judge, an Englishman, and a very good
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and spent a good part of the summer there - remaining a bit after my return home. He wanted to get manual and farm and garden experience, and that same autumn he plunged into farming - took a farm at
Tilford in Surrey, and inducted a little colony into it. But the land was mere sand, and the
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in their unadulterated form. While we saw in the state an indispensable instrument for establishing a minimum standard of life for the common man, he dreaded the slackening of moral fibre as a result of getting 'something for nothing'."
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experience of one winter and spring was enough! In less than a year he gave the place up, and went out, by way of a change, to India, to the Anglo-Mohammedan
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The following works of Harold Cox are available through
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in 1911 but failed to win the seat. He was subsequently
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Harold taught mathematics for two years in India at the
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346:Land Nationalization and Land Taxation
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