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Show nil i.iwm) m mi in. vi) A aeoker after Infornntlou asks a cotemi orary a questlou which is Inter eating front one lut ot view au I absurd looked at another way 11 Is as to tboretondtraiice In numleruf the hunun beings now alive over all thoso who luvo receded them or othrrwlte Willi" It Is understood that thu earth has now n groiter poi illation than It iivlc hal bsfore, tho iiumtcr being estimatod variously at from l,tOOUOO,UUJ to a IiuudrtJ mil lions or moro In excess of that figure, It should tu ko t In mlud that u generation Is a ery brief spanaul that the po illation of thu l.lolu must undergo a com) leto change every hundrod jrars at thu most Ihe Increase this ceillur) Is shown to have been very r Id, ouu authority In 1B04 I ut tho mimter of tuple alive at 111,1100,110, elucu which time It 1 as abo it doub J If all e ttliuatea lire u roiunately correct, au 1 It Is further caluilatt 1 that three 11 mi as mm) hauberii lorn and died since tint date J.veu thu deaths !utlu result century, it Is bellevui, excied thu number of erom living "swoi,o lack lu history," snjs the authority spoken or, "m find a smiller pj ula tlon, I ut with smaller aud smaller data logo ou Tluouly fair basis we havi lor an estimate nl the lei,lniiliigi f tie Christian ura Is Ihe ojulatlouof the Itouiuu emlre Hils li eluded the rnost ctvlllzid raOiis uf mauklud, nud was thu most uitensltoaud towerful nation Hist Urn world hud evrr seen et thu Kjmsn empire, from thu hist obtainable data that has come down to us, did not nt the death or Aunutlui, H 1) U, execod MOOOOOO ioolo India an I Chlni were the only Jiopis lous tarts of the earth beyonl Its limits, and It Is not irobsble that the total population of the world ran above 20OOOJ.O00 at that dale Vet II we allow forty years as the average of life at that era, this populallou, If stationary, station-ary, would ta,eonly 109 years to shsw as many deaths as there are now living eoplo " Thaoountry of whloh we have the most ancient general rcosrJs Is 1 ypt, with a resent population nf nearly 7,00 J,0W It was a olvllltoi nation 4)0) years ujo and the populallou In lulk hat remaluol tolcral ly steady during the who'e of tho Intervening time, hut If It averaged B.y SUM 000 aud the duration of life be ut nt forty years during such Urns and Ihe 2i) X) years ravloua thereto, we havo a total of 750 0)0 00) del I or moro than half thn papulation of the earth, for tint little nation alonil It Is more than likely that the amy of those who have gonu be'oro surpasses that of ;tho living In n proportion almost Imposilhle to estimate. |
