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the secondary mode at 8. Moreover, a tendency toward the formation of lesser modes among the foreign-born, slightly mani- fest in 1890, is distinctly more marked in 1900.

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Fig. 5. — Religions: Magnitude Curve of Resemblance Positions, 1890.

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Fig. 6. — Religions: Magnitude Curve of Resemblance Positions, 1906.

Table II presents the census data on religious bodies for the years 1890 and 1906, grouped according to the marking-scale for religion.

Plotting the data of this table as surfaces of magnitude, we

get the rough curves of sub-homogeneity shown in Figs. 5 and