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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1870 Excerpt: ... greatly changed for what is happier and better in the future consolidation and development of that great people. 19. Duration of Life in past Time. Under this heading, there is little more to be said than was contained in a celebrated but brief chapter. 'There is nothing known' of the duration of life in past time. A few years since it was the belief, based upon supposed statistical facts, that the potential longevity of man, that is, the expectation of life in the higher ages, was increasing and had been increasing for a hundred years. Dr. Farr has fully exposed the fallacy involved in this supposition, which was due to life-tables, erroneously constructed by Dr. Price (to whom, nevertheless, credit is due as a vital statistician), from the mortuary records of the town of Northampton. Dr. Farr has shewn that a table constructed by Price's method gives the same results to-day for Northampton as it did in the celebrated doctor's time. Moreover, the statistics of Sweden, which are very ample, extend from the middle of the eighteenth century, and furnish no indication whatever of a change. Some few facts have been adduced by Dr. Guy, which tend to shew a slight fluctuation in longevity in past centuries (see Tables K), but are really too few in number to allow of any generalization by even the most venturesome. There is not within the cognizance of the writer a single fact of any antiquity to help us materially in the enquiry, unless it be thought that the limitation of life to seventy or eighty years in the Psalms is a smaller span than such a writer would now assign; but this supposition is not worth further consideration. It is very well ascertained that average longevity has immensely increased since the middle ages in Europe; the question, however, of mor...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458834232
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458834239
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr

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