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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 19 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 245,656 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 12,929 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 93. 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:

light, god, christ, man, spirit, will, lord, world, every, may, things, power, shall, truth, one, life, now, men, word, come, people, us, say, made, doth, many, yet, true, law, words, saith, see, forth, know, comes, john, jesus, good, day, way, faith, sin, art, make, self, darkness, without, text, believe, heart

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are This is an answer to John Wiggans book, spread up and down in Lancashire, Cheshire and Wales, who is a baptist & a monarchy-man wherein may be seen how he exalts himself, against Christ the light, that doth enlighten every man : and also some of his, and his peoples erronious principles, and assertions, which he and his people held in a dispute, with some Quakers ... / from the prisoners at Lancaster, whom he then opposed being then a prisoner, Thomas Curwen, William Houlden, Henery Wood, William VVilson ; also here is an answer to his appendix annexed to the book by Margaret Fell., Antichrist''s strongest hold overturned, or, The foundation of the religion of the people called Quakers bared and razed in a debate had with some of them in the castle at Lancaster and in an additional account of the light within ..., here also is shewed the occasion of their rise and growth, together with the right way of discovering their secret delusions ..., hereunto is annexed an appendix wherein their evil language is discovered ... / all which is published ... by J.W., 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..

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

every man, christ jesus, light within, true light, every one, early english, english books, holy ghost, saving light, jesus christ, books online, brought forth, may see, natural man, enlighten every, text creation, creation partnership, page images, natural light, christ doth, made manifest, created light, divine light, thomas curwen, doth enlighten, john wiggan, holy spirit, lord jesus, represented either, characters represented, image sets, tcp schema, lord god, eternal power, lighteth every, made flesh, false prophets, make good, given forth, bring forth, eternal life, law written, new covenant, christ saith, take heed, enlightens every, bear witness, called quakers, must needs, may come

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The cause of stumbling removed from all that will receive the truth; and from before the eyes of the wise men of London: in a treatise shewing the difference between the spirit of a man which is the candle of the Lord, and the light which hath enlightned every man that cometh into the world. Also shewing ... there is not diversity of lights and spirits, by which they are ministred ... Herein also is a false hosanna, and a false testimony reproved ... the name of him which hath so long travell''d to bring forth wind and confusion, is one known in the city of London by the name of Iohn Iackson ... that so ... understanding and knowledge of the truth may be increased, in those that follow on to know the Lord. Given forth from the Lords servant, Richard Hubberthorne. This is an answer to John Wiggans book, spread up and down in Lancashire, Cheshire and Wales, who is a baptist & a monarchy-man wherein may be seen how he exalts himself, against Christ the light, that doth enlighten every man : and also some of his, and his peoples erronious principles, and assertions, which he and his people held in a dispute, with some Quakers ... / from the prisoners at Lancaster, whom he then opposed being then a prisoner, Thomas Curwen, William Houlden, Henery Wood, William VVilson ; also here is an answer to his appendix annexed to the book by Margaret Fell., and To all Presbiterian [sic] ministers, who own themselves to be ministers of Christ''s gospel, and say they suffer persecution for his names sake, to read and consider in this day, in which they may see themselves with the light within, and also measure themselves with their own rule the scriptures, I Cor. 9 14,16 ....

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:

light, god, spirit, tcp, lord, christ, son, law, truth, power, world, life, gospel, father, word, scriptures, scripture, natural, nations, ministers, love, lamb, john, joh, earth, divine, apostle, 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 light, 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?":

light, man, things, spirit, people, truth, power, life, men, world, words, way, day, heart, self, thing, scriptures, scripture, darkness, word, sin, hath, time, doth, art, flesh, faith, works, work, text, thy, glory, hearts, p., knowledge, testimony, nature, end, witness, others, none, nothing, thee, death, seed, name, grace, one, measure, body

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, had, were, come, do, say, made, did, said, been, see, know, comes, being, make, believe, called, according, let, given, hath, came, has, brought, saving, give, set, take, seen, created, sent, am, written, received, done, speak, read, bring, makes, known, call, receive, put, doth, bear, prove

Proper Nouns

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

god, thou, christ, lord, spirit, hath, light, law, john, world, jesus, word, hast, tcp, son, father, 〉, c., ◊, 〈, power, life, gospel, joh, holy, ye, man, g., truth, book, gods, thee, heaven, cor, apostle, faith, earth, men, rom, doctrine, text, apostles, covenant, f., eebo, divine, ghost, art, tei, w.

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, i, him, their, thy, you, we, your, us, my, our, thee, me, its, himself, themselves, her, she, theirs, one, ye, ours, mine, yours, ourselves, ●, trye, thyself, thou, iu, em, andrews

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?"

many, own, such, true, good, same, other, natural, great, false, first, more, manifest, pure, light, eternal, evil, early, contrary, new, dead, much, saith, wicked, spiritual, english, old, holy, able, wise, whole, least, little, everlasting, plain, sufficient, doth, available, sure, second, perfect, glorious, vain, few, outward, dark, high, greater, full, several

not, so, then, now, up, forth, therefore, also, yet, here, out, ever, never, more, even, again, thus, as, only, down, in, all, far, away, before, there, very, long, first, well, together, further, still, truly, thereof, that, over, much, else, too, rather, off, most, thereby, plainly, therein, onely, is, just, no

Next steps

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