Distant Reader - subject-socinianism-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 2021-05-25 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 34 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,650,622 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 48,547 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 90. 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, one, christ, us, may, will, man, must, yet, faith, nature, son, men, father, therefore, first, reason, things, made, words, three, divine, person, word, church, shall, true, thing, persons, though, without, great, now, make, non, say, much, holy, sense, good, law, doth, world, might, two, doctrine, power, many, time, self

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are An exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrewes wherein the text is cleared, Theopolitica improved, the Socinian comment examined / by George Lawson ..., The present state of the Socinian controversy, and the doctrine of the Catholick fathers concerning a trinity in unity by William Sherlock ..., and Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock''s book, entituled A vindication of the holy and ever-blessed Trinity, &c, together with a more necessary vindication of that sacred and prime article of the Christian faith from his new notions, and false explications of it / humbly offered to his admirers, and to himself the chief of them, by a divine of the Church of England..

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

roman non, holy ghost, divine nature, one god, tells us, three persons, divine persons, let us, jesus christ, three distinct, every one, must needs, one person, christian church, eternal life, holy spirit, one another, divine essence, true god, christian faith, english books, early english, every man, three divine, new testament, blessed trinity, may observe, human nature, perfect god, three gods, new covenant, tell us, right hand, old testament, catholick fathers, common nature, good works, books online, two things, proper sense, catholick faith, nothing else, catholick church, take notice, humane nature, christian religion, christs righteousnesse, natural reason, take away, one substance

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A review of the annotations of Hugo Grotius, in reference unto the doctrine of the deity, and satisfaction of Christ. With a defence of the charge formerly laid against them. / By Iohn Ovven D.D. A trve relation of the chiefe passages betweene Mr. Anthony Wotton, and Mr. George Walker, in the yeare of our lord 1611, and in the yeares next following untill 1615 written by George Walker ... ; for the vindicating of himselfe from some imputations laid on him by Mr. Thomas Gataker, in his defence of Mr. Wotton., and Socinianisme in the fundamentall point of justification discovered, and confuted, or, An answer to a written pamphlet maintaining that faith is in a proper sense without a trope imputed to beleevers in justification wherein the Socinian fallacies are discovered and confuted, and the true Christian doctrine maintained, viz. that the righteousnesse by which true beleevers are justified before God is the perfect righteousnesse and obedience which the Lord Iesus Christ God and man did perform to the law of God, both in his life and death / by George Walker ....

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, church, son, christ, father, reason, faith, spirit, scripture, man, trinity, law, holy, doctrine, christian, world, tcp, religion, author, socinians, nature, men, lord, word, socinus, gospel, person, life, ghost, divinity, covenant, book, wotton, walker, substance, saviour, roman, resurrection, reader, power, persons, mr., justification, grace, essence, divine, cor, unity, truth, text

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 An apology for writing against Socinians, in defence of the doctrines of the Holy Trinity and incarnation in answer to a late earnest and compassionate suit for forbearance to the learned writers of some controversies at present / by William Sherlock ... 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, words, reason, men, thing, p., person, faith, time, nature, sense, way, place, author, nothing, word, part, self, scripture, others, death, doth, sin, power, truth, body, t, life, one, hath, end, blood, mind, manner, respect, name, fathers, religion, matter, sins, cause, argument, viz, people, priest, terms, use, works, world

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, was, are, have, were, had, do, made, did, being, said, make, say, been, has, know, believe, give, according, think, take, concerning, see, let, does, ''s, prove, come, called, given, done, taken, understand, find, says, makes, am, hath, having, put, set, deny, understood, meant, tells, consider, thought, found, used

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, christ, son, father, nature, faith, church, divine, persons, law, holy, c., man, trinity, doctrine, spirit, mr., lord, word, world, gospel, christian, ghost, m., substance, men, hath, heaven, l., essence, de, covenant, christs, socinians, divinity, power, abraham, priest, ●, st., saviour, jesus, person, est, text, unity, righteousness

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, i, we, them, him, our, their, us, himself, you, my, me, themselves, its, your, her, she, thy, one, thee, theirs, ours, ye, mine, itself, ''em, gods, yours, ''s, us''d, ourselves, herself, em, whereof, u, myself, †, ian, urg''d, non, hers, ‖, yourself, y, ts, tollit, severall

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?"

same, other, such, true, great, own, first, more, non, good, many, -, roman, distinct, eternal, necessary, former, perfect, much, whole, proper, certain, common, plain, particular, several, new, second, little, excellent, last, divine, least, very, better, different, greater, general, false, full, only, clear, next, natural, evident, righteous, contrary, able, sufficient, present

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

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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