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thirty-five thousand millions. Taking the estimate of 

 Dr. Dick, and assuming the average quantity of 

 blood in a common-sized person, the veins of these 

 14,000,000,000 would fill a circular lake of more than 

 seventeen miles in circumference, ten feet deep, in 

 which all the navies of the world might float ! Sup- 

 posing these slaughtered millions to average each 

 four feet in length, if placed in a row they would 

 reach nearly 422 times around the earth, and four times 

 around the sun. Supposing they average 130 pounds 

 each, then they would form a globe of human flesh 

 of nearly a mile in diameter, weighing 1,820,000,- 

 000,000 pounds — fourteen times more than all the 

 human beings now living on the globe. 



What a spectacle to the eyes of Him, with whom 

 time and eternity, things present, past, and to come, 

 are one omnipresent Now ! with whom all the actions 

 and conditions of his creatures are not matters of 

 memory, or prescience, but of clear and consentaneous 

 vision ! Not a drop of that sea of blood has evaporated 

 from the sight of that all-seeing eye. Its red, putrid, 

 vapor is still going up into the nostrils of the God 

 of peace. Before him that solid globe of human flesh 

 revolves, in its crimson atmosphere, a horrid satellite 

 around the green earth he made for man. Oh, 



