Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by Sir William Petty
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8. A conjecture in what number of years England and Ireland may be fully peopled, as also all America, and lastly the whole habitable earth. 9. What spot of the earth's globe were fittest for a general and universal emporium, whereby all the people thereof may best enjoy one another's labours and commodities. 10. Whether the speedy peopling of the earth would make (1) For the good of mankind. (2) To fulfil the revealed will of God. (3) To what prince or State the same would be most advantageous. 11. An exhortation to all thinking men to solve the Scriptures and other good histories, concerning the number of people in all ages of the world, in the great cities thereof, and elsewhere. 12. An appendix concerning the different number of sea-fish and wild-fowl at the end of every thousand years since Noah's Flood. 13. An hypothesis of the use of those spaces (of about 8,000 miles through) within the globe of our earth, supposing a shell of 150 miles thick. 14. What may be the meaning of glorified bodies, in case the place |
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