There is one law of expectation of ife which governs all," says Saturday Jouroal,"
law of the average. man who lives till he is more than a century old, and the child who dies in infancy, are alike included in it; they balance each other's chances, as it were.
Consider the simplest example. Of 100,000 people living at the age of 10, only 95,614 will live to the age of 21, only 82,284 will be living at 40, only 49 will be living at 96, and only 9 at 87. At 30, the average man may take jit that he has under 35 years to live at 40, under 28 years; at 50, under 21 years; at 60 under 14 years.
In each or a shorter life, but the average will infallibly work out within " space of After all the Psalmist, istles, arrived at an even smaller figare many years ago and with, perhaps, still moore infallibility.
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