Distant Reader - subject-christianEthics-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 18 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,378,311 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 76,572 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 91. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

god, may, man, will, law, yet, therefore, good, must, men, one, us, things, doe, reason, conscience, great, shall, power, love, laws, nature, make, church, made, every, without, thing, much, onely, religion, though, self, world, christ, first, also, many, sin, nothing, now, life, well, evil, time, done, like, case, use, true

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Ductor dubitantium, or, The rule of conscience in all her generall measures serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience : in four books / by Jeremy Taylor ..., Christian ethicks, or, Divine morality opening the way to blessedness, by the rules of vertue and reason / by Tho. Traherne ..., and Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ....

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

jesus christ, every man, every thing, must needs, every one, man may, humane laws, roman non, civil power, supreme power, one another, wounded conscience, god will, take care, lords day, good men, let us, many things, nothing else, civil law, good man, wise men, holy ghost, right reason, blessed saviour, natural law, wise man, natural reason, english books, early english, every day, will make, serve god, man will, christian liberty, love god, whole world, upright man, thine heart, may doe, new testament, books online, much less, make use, old testament, man shall, christian religion, ecclesiastical laws, make us, non est

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London. Salutem & officia in Christo Jesu. Good brother, Finding my self obliged by his Majesty''s most gracious letters patents, for the relief of the French that have lately taken refuge in this kingdom to give a particular recommendation to the clergy of my diocese, for the advancement of so pious and charitable work, ..., and Ductor dubitantium, or, The rule of conscience in all her generall measures serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience : in four books / by Jeremy Taylor ....

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

god, man, lord, religion, church, christian, world, tcp, nature, christ, reason, conscience, spirit, soul, scripture, saviour, love, laws, thing, sun, men, magistrate, life, hath, divine, common, angels, thy, society, self, sabbath, roman, priests, power, philosophy, parents, objects, ministers, lordship, law, king, jews, jesus, holy, government, gospel, gods, glory, faith, eternity

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be god, and Divinity and morality in robes of poetry composed for the recreations of the courteous and ingenious by the author Tho. Jordan. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

man, law, things, men, reason, p., power, thing, laws, nothing, self, conscience, religion, nature, sin, life, time, case, duty, way, hath, end, others, love, part, world, day, words, matter, death, persons, body, cases, actions, selves, heart, people, person, faith, action, truth, cause, evil, use, good, question, act, sense, authority, soul

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, are, was, have, were, had, make, made, did, being, does, do, done, said, doe, give, say, been, take, hath, let, see, know, according, concerning, come, bound, given, love, put, think, find, makes, am, use, having, taken, consider, doing, live, commanded, become, called, follow, speak, set, serve, gave, obey

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, n., c., church, l., christ, doe, r., s., hath, conscience, law, thou, ibid, de, lord, nature, world, love, father, est, gods, divine, heaven, laws, christian, lib, prince, rule, man, soul, christians, commandement, men, jesus, holy, spirit, king, judge, son, princes, ●, vertue, mans, paul, bishop, religion

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, his, he, they, we, their, our, i, them, him, us, my, its, you, himself, her, themselves, your, me, thy, she, thee, ''em, one, ours, theirs, mine, us''d, em, yours, ye, non, hers, ●, herself, ourselves, elias, whereof, l, gods, ''s, yee, quae, diu, ay, affirm''d, ‖, à, wh, vvith

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, good, such, great, own, same, many, more, true, first, necessary, natural, much, certain, little, whole, greater, better, evil, best, particular, common, wise, proper, holy, new, sufficient, civil, spiritual, perfect, lawful, present, infinite, right, least, publick, last, general, several, private, very, full, old, probable, greatest, eternal, able, non, most, less

not, so, then, therefore, more, onely, as, also, yet, now, very, is, that, well, most, never, thus, much, up, only, even, too, indeed, ever, all, here, far, first, just, out, rather, there, at, sometimes, else, whatsoever, in, away, together, long, no, otherwise, especially, wholly, still, certainly, off, infinitely, down, alone

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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