Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Those Who Have Lived. [ARTICLE]

Those Who Have Lived.

According to a recent writer it is impossible to give any close figures on the Dumber of persons who have lived on this earth. It is generally considered that one person in every thirteen dies each vear. At this rate the population would be renewed every thirteen years. Assuming that the population of the world is 1,000,000,000, and that it has been 1,000,000,000 at any time during the last 6,000 years, we find that the population has been renewed about 461 times; that is, that 462,000,000,000 have lived ou this earth since the creation. This, of course, is vastly in excess of the real number, for the world, so far as we can tell, is more thickly populated now than ever before. Probably if we were to cut those figures in two we should still be above the actual number, with a total of 231,0-00,000,000 persons. There are no figures on which to base an estimate of the population of the world in Christ’s time. The census taken when He was brought up to Jerusalem has not come 'dowfrto us; if it had, it would have been of great historical and sociological value. [Goldthwaite’s Geographical Magazine.