Distant Reader - subject-truth-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 14 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 610,474 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 43,605 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:

god, may, will, one, truth, things, first, therefore, yet, christ, shall, spirit, true, now, man, nature, us, men, though, say, light, must, good, thing, made, divine, world, also, many, make, reason, words, without, church, know, time, life, great, much, power, body, like, way, might, non, nothing, soul, self, doth, every

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Two choice and useful treatises the one, Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls, being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence in relation to mans sin and misery : the other, A discourse of truth / by the late Reverend Dr. Rust ... ; with annotations on them both., A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen., and What is truth. Or, the patern in the mount Wherein many places of scripture are (in pursuit of truth, and the churches peace) explained. Therein, most false opinions and heresies (both modern and ancient) are clearly detected and refelled. By Tho. Harby..

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

roman non, must needs, every man, every one, holy ghost, false prophet, papal rome, divine nature, second dragon, christ jesus, first dragon, jesus christ, divine understanding, early english, english books, false prophets, good works, may seem, divine goodness, primitive church, let us, every thing, one another, divine intellect, threefold city, books online, humane souls, true church, non est, one thing, four hundred, general council, divine wisdom, man may, true saints, three parts, humane nature, nothing else, general councils, take notice, mean time, made manifest, page images, first principle, may see, grand apostacy, former state, th chapters, lord jesus, many things

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Truth tried: or, animadversions on a treatise published by the Right Honorable Robert Lord Brook, entituled, The Nature of Truth, its vnion and vnity with the soule. Which (saith he) is one in its essence, faculties, acts; one with truth. By I. W. Truth (the strongest of all) witnessed forth in the spirit of truth, against all deceit: and pleading in righteousnesse its owne cause, to the understanding of the simple, against a very great number of lyes, slanders, perverting of the Scriptures, contradictions and false damnable doctrines, held forth by the Independants. And in particular by one John Bunion, (one of Gogs Army) in two severall bookes put forth by him, against the despised scattered people called Quakers. And is a reply unto his second book, called A vindication, &c. wherein what was wanting in his former of fulfilling wickednesse is now appeared; by his adding sin unto sin, against God and against his owne soule. And this is to cleer the truth from above 100 of John Bunions foule dirty lyes and slanders: by a friend of the truth as it is in Christ Jesus; and not as it is in mens carnall apprehensions, Edward Burrough., and Truth defended. Or, Certain accusations answered, cast upon us who are called Quakers; by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation. With a cleare discovery, who are the false prophets, and when they came in. And who they are that deny Christ, and that preach another gospel. And who deny the scriptures, churches, ministers, and magistrates, whereby the magistrates and people of this nation may see they justifie that which the scripture condemns, and condemne that which the holy men of God justified. / By a servant of the Lord, whose name in the flesh is, Edward Burrough..

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, truth, lord, spirit, scripture, church, christ, nature, light, doctrine, argument, world, understanding, soul, law, hypothesis, good, form, essence, earth, divine, word, wisdom, time, thing, terrestrial, tcp, substance, soule, saints, roman, reason, pre, non, matter, man, intellect, idea, goodness, general, father, faith, doctor, council, body, baxter, author, attributes, witnesses, wilderness

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 Truth tried: or, animadversions on a treatise published by the Right Honorable Robert Lord Brook, entituled, The Nature of Truth, its vnion and vnity with the soule. Which (saith he) is one in its essence, faculties, acts; one with truth. By I. W. 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, truth, man, men, thing, words, light, nature, nothing, way, time, reason, body, life, self, power, world, part, others, t, state, place, souls, matter, sense, sin, scripture, soul, understanding, hath, knowledge, works, -, people, death, years, ▪, faith, doth, one, cause, argument, opinion, bodies, mind, none, day, word, times, text

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, being, had, say, made, do, been, did, make, know, said, see, come, according, has, take, let, think, called, done, give, prove, does, hath, am, having, call, found, given, came, find, suppose, makes, ''s, seem, deny, put, seems, taken, answer, speak, concerning, set, act, created

Proper Nouns

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

god, 〉, ◊, 〈, christ, spirit, thou, c., church, truth, divine, lord, hath, pag, rome, ●, est, soule, father, chap, nature, doe, doctrine, world, essence, earth, goodness, soul, heaven, son, gospel, mr., dragon, will, city, apostacy, ye, faith, papal, text, john, idea, light, holy, gods, law, jesus, wisdom, spirits, doctor

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, they, i, his, he, their, them, we, our, him, you, us, its, my, her, your, themselves, me, himself, thy, she, thee, one, itself, ours, theirs, mine, yours, ye, herself, l, vp, unself, non, ts, ''s, ha, yee, whereof, vnto, us''d, u, severall, s, quo, quae, prov''d, ourselves, myself, hers

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, other, same, true, first, many, good, own, great, more, false, second, former, least, little, divine, much, -, saith, best, non, better, whole, contrary, most, necessary, distinct, common, due, proper, particular, spiritual, roman, new, eternal, able, very, free, right, last, natural, like, threefold, general, present, pure, old, clear, full, perfect

not, so, then, therefore, more, now, as, also, thus, most, yet, very, only, here, up, well, first, never, ever, much, onely, forth, all, even, there, indeed, out, rather, far, too, again, is, that, at, else, secondly, otherwise, before, away, still, in, no, down, thereof, plainly, together, further, immediately, once, fully

Next steps

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