The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-05-26
TIE HUMAN RACE.
ats reputation and Religious COndi.
fion--Entcrcstimg statistics.


fion--Hntcrcstiag Statistics.
We copy from an able article by Bishop
r. 5. Foster, the following extracts The
human family living to-day on the earth con
sists of about /, $50, 000, 900 of individuals ,
not less, probably more. These are dis
tributed over the earths surface, so that now
there is no considerable part where man is
not found.
In Asia, where he was first planted, there
are now approximately about 800, 900, 900,
densely crowded on an average, 100 to the
square mile. In Europe there are 800, 000,-
600, averaging 100 to the square mile; not
30 crowded, but everywhere dense, and at
points over-populated. In Africa there are
100000, 900. In America, North and South,
there are ITO, DOC, 900, relatively thinly scat
tered and recent. In the islands, large and
small, probably 10,000,0O
The extremes of the white and black are
as five 10 three the remaining intermediate
brown and tawny. or the race 500, 000, 600
are well clothed that is, wear garments Of
some kind to coyor their nakedness 70O,-
000, 900 are semi clothed, covering inferior
parts of the body; 250, 900, 900 are practi-
cally naked. OF the race 500, 600, 900 live
in houses partly furnished with the appoint
ments of civilization 10000, 600 in huts
or caves with no furnishings $50, 000, 900
have nothing that can be called home, are
barbarous and savage. The range is from
the topmost round-the Anglo-Saxon civil
hzation, which is the highest known-down
to naked savagery The portion of the
race, lying below the proper line of human
conditions, is at the very least three-fifths OF
she whole, or 900 900, 900.
As to religion, the l ,450, 900, 900 are d.
vided in the order of numerical strength as
follows: 860,000,0Oo are pagans, compris-
ing 600, 100000 of Brahmo-B uddhists or
Brahmans and Buddhists, 100, 900, 900 of
unclassified pagans, 100000 Parsees,
Confucianists, Shintoists, jams and other
smaller pagan sects, 410, 600, 600 are Chris.
tians, composed of 225, 100000 Roman
Catholic, 75,000,0 900 of the Greek Church
and 10,000,000 Professionals 1870. DOC. COG
Mohammedans, 5000, 900 Jews. The $780,
0Oo, 900 of pagans are found chiefly in Asia
and Africa, and comprise 99-10Oths of the
population, with scattering millions in the
Americas and islands of the sea.
The 410, 000, 900 Christians constitute the
body of Europe, and nine-tenths of the
Americans, with feM. millions in Asia,
Africa and the islands. The Mohanmedans
are chiefly scattered in Asia and Africa,
The Jews are scattered in all lands, without
home or country.
This is approximately correct cast os tn,
religious status of the world to-day. Il
shows two-thirds of the whole world to be
pagan, or. including the Mohammedans and
Jews as anti-Christian components of the
pagan fiction, three-quarters of the whole
mot less than ,O50, 600, 900. The remain
ing fraction of 410, 000,O 00-a little more
than quarter Christians, Of which frac
ton more than one-half is Roman Catholic,
one-quarter, nearly, Greek, and a triAe over
quarter Protestant.
To find the actual condition Of these PEG.
pie it is necessary to go beneath these names
pagan, Mohammedan, Christian, Jew.
and determine their significance, the actual
state of those designated by them.
We have found that the non-C hri,tian
world comprises the enormous aggregate OF
nearly LOO, 900, 00e.-heathen. Mohamme-
dan and Jew-all but 100000 practically
heathen; the Mohammedan differing frolu
he pagan element rs to condition and prac-
lice, not at all; and as TO faith, In. a single
doctrine stolen from Christianity and per.
verted in the theft for, outside of the doe
trine of Monotheism, the followers of the
false prophet are, in practice and life, essen.
TALLY heather. No one passing from one
into the other would notice difference in
the general trend of the systems and their
practical results. They produce the same
type of human character.