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Literary
August 12, 1806
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Extract from a sermon preached before Grantham magistrates, featuring a calculation estimating global mortality: 30 million deaths yearly, down to one per second, urging serious reflection on death and eternity.
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MORTALITY.
Extract from a Sermon lately preached before the Magistrates, &c. of Grantham, Eng. The following curious calculation is introduced in this extraordinary production:-
"It is generally supposed that this earth is inhabited by one thousand millions of men, or thereabouts, and that thirty-three years make a generation, and therefore that in thirty-three years there die one thousand millions. Thus the number of those who die on earth, amount to
Each year, thirty millions.
Each day, eighty two thousand.
Each hour, three thousand, four hundred."
Each minute, sixty.
Each second, one.
"This calculation must necessarily strike us: if the mortality be so great every year and every hour, is it not probable that he who reflects on it, may himself be one of those soon to swell the list of the dead? It is at least certain, that it ought to lead us to think seriously and often on this subject. Now at this very moment, one of our fellow creatures is going out of the world, and before another hour be past, more than three thousand souls will have entered into an eternal state."
Extract from a Sermon lately preached before the Magistrates, &c. of Grantham, Eng. The following curious calculation is introduced in this extraordinary production:-
"It is generally supposed that this earth is inhabited by one thousand millions of men, or thereabouts, and that thirty-three years make a generation, and therefore that in thirty-three years there die one thousand millions. Thus the number of those who die on earth, amount to
Each year, thirty millions.
Each day, eighty two thousand.
Each hour, three thousand, four hundred."
Each minute, sixty.
Each second, one.
"This calculation must necessarily strike us: if the mortality be so great every year and every hour, is it not probable that he who reflects on it, may himself be one of those soon to swell the list of the dead? It is at least certain, that it ought to lead us to think seriously and often on this subject. Now at this very moment, one of our fellow creatures is going out of the world, and before another hour be past, more than three thousand souls will have entered into an eternal state."
What sub-type of article is it?
Essay
What themes does it cover?
Death Mortality
Religious
What keywords are associated?
Mortality Calculation
Sermon Extract
Death Reflection
Eternal State
Grantham Sermon
Literary Details
Title
Mortality.
Subject
Sermon Preached Before The Magistrates Of Grantham On Mortality
Key Lines
Each Year, Thirty Millions.
Each Day, Eighty Two Thousand.
Each Hour, Three Thousand, Four Hundred.
Each Minute, Sixty.
Each Second, One.