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YOUR BILLIONS OF ANCESTORS
Did you ever think, says the St. Louis Republic, how many
male and female ancestors were required to bring you into the world? First, it
was necessary that you should have a father and mother---that makes two human
beings. Again, each of them must have had a father and mother---making eight
more human beings. So on we go back to the time of Jesus Christ---fifty-six
generations. The calculation thus resulting shows that 132,235,017,489,534,976
births must have taken place in order to bring you into this world---you, who
read these lines. All this since the birth of Christ--not since the beginning of
time. According to Proctor, if from a single pair, for 5,000 years, each husband
and wife had married at 21 years of age and there had been no deaths, the
population of the earth would be 2,199,915 followed by 144 ciphers. It would
require to hold his population a number of worlds the size of this, equal to
3,166,626 followed by 125 ciphers. The human mind shrinks in contemplating such
immense numbers.
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Peggy
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