Distant Reader - subject-futureLife-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 17 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 524,169 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 30,833 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, will, shall, may, us, man, world, one, soul, good, life, men, now, must, things, self, yet, great, state, much, lord, love, glory, christ, therefore, first, reason, thing, make, made, without, nature, present, heaven, time, every, future, many, power, nothing, never, body, mind, another, might, say, rest, though, well, ever

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 / by John Howe ..., A future world in which mankind shall survive their mortal durations, demonstrated by rational evidence from natural and moral arguments against the atheists pretentions by William Smyth., and The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behavior of a man in the act of the nevv birth A treatise by way of appendix to the former. By Isaac Ambrose, minister of Christ at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire..

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

future state, another world, jesus christ, let us, future world, every one, lord jesus, early english, english books, one another, must needs, books online, present state, tells us, good men, roman non, every thing, every man, eternal rest, god will, nothing else, will never, page images, shall go, towards god, good man, creation partnership, text creation, god almighty, christ jesus, give us, shall see, almighty god, blessed god, make use, shall never, future life, may bee, holy ghost, learned author, divine nature, much less, make us, take notice, one thing, christian religion, humane nature, life eternal, divine glory, good things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Two compendious discourses the one concerning the power of God, the other about the certainty and evidence of a future state : published in opposition to the growing atheism and deism of the age. Free thoughts in defence of a future state, as discoverable by natural reason, and stript of all superstitious appendages ... with occasional remarks on a book intituled, An inquiry concerning virtue, and a refutation of the reviv''d Hylozoicism of Democritus and Leucippus., and The difference between the present and future state of our bodies considered in a sermon / by Jeremy Collier..

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, tcp, soul, man, lord, world, spirit, saints, life, thing, reason, men, father, christ, saviour, religion, nature, love, heaven, gospel, gods, earth, divine, body, text, son, scripture, power, mind, law, kingdom, justice, jesus, hades, great, glory, eternity, doctrine, cor, bodies, bee, argument, actions, wee, vision, virtue, vertuous, vertue, tully, thy

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 A sermon preached before the Queen at White-hall, October 12. 1690 by William Beveridge ... 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, things, life, soul, self, men, thing, glory, reason, time, t, state, world, nothing, body, nature, way, mind, love, power, part, end, heart, death, rest, souls, hath, day, selves, pleasure, blessedness, place, happiness, thoughts, others, one, saints, sense, work, sin, truth, mercy, case, order, words, faith, word, satisfaction, purpose, hand

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, have, was, were, do, had, being, make, made, been, say, let, see, come, take, think, give, know, has, live, did, hath, said, go, according, ''s, consider, find, am, done, blessed, having, given, believe, makes, put, set, appear, thought, found, look, concerning, bee, love, enjoy, desire, become, speak

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, thou, lord, christ, world, heaven, hath, spirit, man, soul, ●, c., divine, state, men, gods, father, life, jesus, gospel, tcp, future, hell, nature, justice, earth, virtue, t, love, holy, cor, mankind, son, mans, st., church, text, wee, resurrection, kingdom, christian, faith, saviour, happiness, ye, law, doctrine

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, their, i, we, our, them, him, us, you, my, its, thy, himself, me, your, themselves, thee, her, she, one, theirs, ours, ye, mine, yours, thou, itself, ''s, ''em, whereof, yourself, non, judg''d, †, yf, wil, whosoever, vitam, ts, th, tehey, ourselves, l, kn, imself, hee, em

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?"

such, own, other, good, great, many, present, more, same, eternal, much, first, true, future, natural, little, last, whole, happy, holy, very, necessary, common, glorious, full, capable, everlasting, greater, better, several, least, wise, perfect, divine, saith, former, sufficient, able, general, proper, most, possible, poor, certain, best, vertuous, greatest, reasonable, new, infinite

not, so, then, more, now, most, as, therefore, here, only, up, never, ever, yet, much, thus, very, also, well, even, too, out, all, first, onely, far, is, that, again, still, there, away, rather, indeed, down, often, else, once, off, together, no, in, at, just, sometimes, otherwise, over, naturally, fully, especially

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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