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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 40
Population. A Baulk
Population. A Baulk.
In a recent German Statistical publication the number of inhabitants on this planet is set down at 1,439,142,300. The number which ought to be the living descendants from Noah's family does not seem to have ever been calculated by any theological student like Bishop Usher. Taking the lapse of time since the Deluge at near the Bishop's estimate, say 4000 years, the number at the commencement of the present era should have been four hundred thousands of millions. For my purpose I have put down one hundred millions, as an estimate of the population of Europe, which might be assumed from the numbers of armed men kept in pay by the Romans. But whether the estimate is near or far the result will be the same. I know the number, but I do not want you to know yet.
If you will take the census returns you will find the increase of population in a mean of 29 decades to amount to 12.121 per cent, in every generation of 30 years.
To make this estemet more startling, and take it out of the category of estimates, I have gone to extremes, and taken only 4 per cent increase in every generation of 30 years—that is, I have allowed only 4 births above deaths to every 50 women, and that too, supposes women and men to be equal in numbers, whereas, women have the preponderance to the extent of 12 per cent, in a mean of 257 years taken at random.
In 1800 years the increase at 4 per cent would bring the population up to one thousand millions (the present number multiplied by three), and then allow fifty-eight millions for loss by war pestilence and famine, although that incidence would have been included if 12.121 per cent had been taken.
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Any calculation based on statistics would make the population of Europe more than the population of the whole world four times multiplied, and then only allow one hundred millions for the increase of the previous four thousand years generation.
Compute as you may the result is the same. Thousands of millions of the human races have to be accounted for somehow.
What becomes of them?
This is my Baulk!
This is my Pulle!—In the annals of the Lodge of Summerhayes, in the archives of working Lodges, and in the bummistrie of the Archet there are hundreds of tons of manuscript relating to planetary conflagration, cyclax, cyclone, cateclyce, simoon, and twenty other annihilating sweeps of human life by suffocation, planetary conjunction and planetary misplacement. At one time Venus hung suspended from, the earth at 12,000 miles distance, this planet hung from Mirve* at 9000 miles distance, and Mirve hung suspended from Saturn, all of them without orbit.
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There are 83 cateclytic simoonetts on record, all of them leaving the planet swept of life. At one time only two men and two women were eft, at other times hundreds, and sometimes thousands. India has been swept, and Europe saved. The tail of the Comet Memone has swept a belt four miles in width, completely around the planet, and suffocated every, living thing within its circuit. After another visitation China was left 327 years without an inhabitant.
"If the whole human family should be destroyed by suffocation excent one negro man and woman, in a plated time every race would be restuted again, have, passed through a chrysilite stage, and gregated in eight races and one clatter."
Your attention, Brethren!
When men multiply after, a cyclax or cateclyce, all are nomad. For a few years families may keep together, but to wander in search of wealth is irrestible. In a few years all are wanderers, by compulsion or choice, and to gather wealth is to invite plunder. In fifty years all are mixed in blood, marrow and spittle, and then come the young wild crustacæ, wild in habits and promiscuous in intercourse.
The young of the crustacæ (the third genera from pure bred rote) incept the germs of all races, and in three generations their young are Crumlæ. In thirty years the Crumlæ breed a first spu, in thirty years more, a second, and, fifteen after, they cast Crumptæ. In 272 years, if no interruption occurs, the first Gyptic or Gypsy is in boyhood. The next that follows is the Cyptic, the next the Coptic, and then the Grotic, the Gallic, the Guelphic, the Cymbic, and the Celtic.
These are Spocet. From them race springs—the Angle, the Dane Dutch, Spaniard, Teuton, Russse, Norse and Scand.
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The descent of the pure Angle from the Gipsy cannot be less than 274 years with nothing to retard, but a community is a long and uncertain transition.
Nationalities in Europe are now mixed and in transition. The Giptic is distributed in Europe every where. The Ciptic flushed in the Welch, the Coptic in the Norse of Norway, the Grotic in the Spaniard, the Gallic in the Welch, Highlanders, and Norfolkmen, the Guelphic are Bavarians and Hanovarians the Cymbic are in the French and Spaniards, and the Celtic in the Irish and Westphalians. Other nationalities are mostly in race.
In 2741 years the whole planet might be Andalusian again, the highest type of Angle puberty.
* Modern Astronomy is but a begining, which has been assisted by giving a list of the names, positions, declination, latitude, and radiance of the fixed stars giving a marked Ephemeris, and allowing a young Masonic student to rate the Berlin observatory time. All instruction beyond this, and supplying some of the tables of the Nautical Almanac has been withheld, except, by answering occasional questions. The Astronomers of the Royal Lodge of Astronomy are not permitted to converse on the subject. In a few years the study will be free. It is a science which cannot progress but with the revolution of the Solar System, and an ordinary lifetime would only be long enough to mark four seconds. Mirve, is a dark planet seen in moonlit aborretted radiance, in a field of quicksilver. In a Reemed Supetted Luroscope, a view of Mirve can be brought to a focus, and even pebble stones on the sea beach be counted. The planet Saturn moves in a superior orbit, and leaves no trail—the result of his light being self-refracting, not a borrowed light. Mirve is a dark planet, seen through a 35 foot blackened tube. Anibern, Amherst, Ampobe, Coralando, and 29 other Endite of Plant can only be seen by radiate, in a field of gold in ether solution, or by the luroscope.
Note.—A description of Lord Rosse's telescope says that any object on the Moon one hundred feet square can be distinctly viewed. If this is correct, then a superior instrument would show up an object a foot square, and there is no limit until perfection is arrived at. Perfection in an instrument adapted to one focal distance would not be perfection at a greater distance; so that the length of the tube determines its focal power. Sliding tubes are only of service for adjustment, they do not increase the power of the instrument, and hereto hangs a secret worth knowing to modern astronomers, but out of their power to avail themselves of in one short life time, although it might be proved on small instruments. If distance lenses are more than 2.224 inches apart, the radiance flares, and the peret of the focu is mesmatted, or may be destroyed altogether. A fixed star in the Melbourne telescope looks like a candle in a fog. The radiance refracted in the object lense must be caught at its focussed term by another lense; seated, refracted and so transferred from lense to lense, until it reaches the screen, which is a perfect plane of crystal. The lenses must be ground so true that no two rays of light cross each other. The Church, secure in possession of the never failing authority of their own Holy Book, roasted Cornopieus alive before a slow fire, baisted his body all the time with hot fat, and kept him writhing for two hours, by the sentence of the Supreme Court of Architrave. Tycho Brahe was skinned alive, Galileo was hung, and William Henry Everett was poisoned; each of them for questioning the decrees of heaven, and having Masonic telescopes in their possession. When Adrianopol was threatened by the Russians the other day, a telescope was in site which would photograph the breath of a man 40 miles distant, or show up a pebble stone on the planet Mars. The officer in charge was offered £810 000 by a Russian spy, in the name of the Emperor to let the instrument remain. He refused, and the same night the house was surrounded with armed men, but the telescope was gone. 83 attempts to place an Astronomical Observatory ended in torture, murder or massacre, until the Sultan of Turkey gave a home, and armed protection, which lasted 400 years.