The impossibility of knowing everything may lead us to remain in the backwaters of a narrow specialization. But statistics offers a way out: a well-chosen sample permits valid generalizations about a large population. In this case, a matrix with cultural categories on one axis and time on the other can lay the groundwork for producing a picture of western culture.
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