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Show SOMI2 PESSIMISTIC STATISTICS. . Estimating the world's population as 1.500.000.000. the whole human race at present living could stand comfortably shoulder to shoulder in an area of five hundred square miles. Taking the number of generations m the past six thousand years as two hundred, the room taken by them all on the above plan would only be half the size of Germany, or less than the area of the state of Colorado. To bury all the people on earth would require a graveyard n little larger than that area. If the dust left by each body be estimated at one-tenth of a cubic yard, which Is a liberal estimate, It would cover only forty square miles to a depth of about three feet. This certainly seems insignificant, it is pointed out, compared with the great coral reefs and other Immense deposits de-posits built up by the shells of tiny mollusks. |