Distant Reader - subject-revelation-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 11 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 199,710 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 18,155 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 89. 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, spirit, things, will, revelation, man, may, power, divine, yet, us, shall, one, doth, now, men, scripture, true, know, truth, world, christ, many, holy, faith, without, therefore, made, life, say, lord, light, words, thing, nature, first, self, see, reason, must, believe, word, time, much, outward, every, saith, also, inward, even

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Divine immediate revelation and inspiration, continued in the true church second part. In two treatises: the first being an answer to Jo. W. Bajer Doctor and Professor of Divinity, so called, at Jena in Germany, published first in Latine, and now in English. The second being an answer to George Hicks, stiled Doctor of Divinity, his sermon preached at Oxford, 1681. and printed with the title of, The spirit of enthusiasm exorcised; where this pretended exorcist is detected. Together, with some testimonies of truth, collected out of diverse ancient writers and fathers, so called. By G.K., The invisible things of God brought to light by the revelation of the eternal spirit who was an ey-witness of the wonders of the Lord in the beginning : wherein is declared the felicity of all things in the beginning and the sad estate of all things after the transgression ... / by Francis Howgill., and The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed, or, Proud ignorance the cause of infidelity, and of mens quarrelling with the word of God.

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

holy spirit, divine revelation, english books, early english, immediate revelation, holy ghost, books online, divine inspiration, last days, outward senses, christian religion, page images, creation partnership, text creation, every one, gods word, holy scripture, let us, sundry times, many things, brought forth, divine revelations, divine things, sermon preached, every man, miraculous gifts, every thing, represented either, image sets, tcp schema, characters represented, new testament, true christians, holy scriptures, time past, outward preaching, made manifest, god made, apostles days, formal object, may say, robert boyle, general council, honourable robert, true church, john williams, eternal life, holy men, may see, dead works

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed, or, Proud ignorance the cause of infidelity, and of mens quarrelling with the word of God The characters of divine revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, March 4. 1694/5 : being the third of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ..., and The possibility, expediency, and necessity of divine revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 7. 1694/5 : at the beginning of the lecture for the ensuing year, founded by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ....

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, revelation, tcp, scripture, divine, truth, spirit, lord, evidence, christ, son, reason, inspiration, church, world, word, vision, sun, state, soul, senses, prophets, power, pope, persons, papists, nations, messias, life, law, lamb, idea, holy, father, faith, earth, council, christians, certainty, authority, author, apostles, apostacy

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 The invisible things of God brought to light by the revelation of the eternal spirit who was an ey-witness of the wonders of the Lord in the beginning : wherein is declared the felicity of all things in the beginning and the sad estate of all things after the transgression ... / by Francis Howgill. 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?":

things, man, power, men, scripture, thing, words, truth, life, self, world, time, faith, reason, light, word, doth, spirit, revelation, mind, knowledge, nature, evidence, hath, day, nothing, heart, part, means, way, body, author, scriptures, works, others, sense, text, inspiration, use, soul, grace, glory, times, people, none, state, books, sin, hearts, p.

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, do, did, know, made, say, see, believe, been, said, being, come, make, called, let, hath, known, given, comes, give, received, take, understand, think, speak, according, prove, revealed, came, seen, doth, brought, saith, receive, read, answer, concerning, has, inspired, appear, find, am, believed, hear

Proper Nouns

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

god, spirit, revelation, christ, divine, lord, holy, hath, 〉, 〈, ◊, church, thou, gods, tcp, c., law, christians, certainty, power, r., apostles, nature, world, inspiration, gospel, faith, truth, son, pope, father, christian, heaven, sun, soul, life, prophets, ●, text, scripture, doctrine, mankind, immediate, moses, l., jews, revelations, authority, word, john

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, he, his, they, them, we, i, their, him, you, us, our, its, your, himself, my, themselves, me, thy, her, she, thee, one, theirs, ours, ye, yours, s, mine, ●, thou, ps, itself, gods, custom

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, true, such, many, same, own, great, outward, good, more, necessary, first, certain, natural, much, divine, pure, inward, immediate, whole, common, sufficient, false, last, spiritual, eternal, dead, holy, doth, little, greater, present, perfect, supernatural, faithful, early, clear, several, saith, manifest, former, miraculous, excellent, old, new, full, evident, very, least, able

not, so, then, now, therefore, as, more, yet, up, also, only, even, most, well, ever, here, again, thus, never, far, forth, much, out, immediately, first, all, in, indeed, very, still, there, before, away, together, no, too, rather, else, down, truly, long, certainly, further, clearly, sometimes, once, especially, already, at, inwardly

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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