Si6 Q F O L D A G E 



From this table, it appears, that a new born 

 infant, or a child of o age, has an equal chance 

 of living 8 years ; that a child of i year will 

 live 23 more ; that a child of 2 years will live 

 38 more ; that a man of 20 years will live 33 

 and 5 months more ; and that a man of 30 

 years will live 28 more, &c. 



It may be farther obferved, i. That 7 years is 

 the age at which the longeft duration of life is to 

 be expeded ; for there is then an equal chance 

 of furviving 42 years 3 months ; 2. That, at 12 

 years, one fourth of life is expired, fmce we 

 have no reafon to hope for above 38 or 39 years 

 more ; 3. That, at 28 or 29 years, we have lived 

 one half of our days, fmce there are only 28 

 more to be expeQed ; and, laftly, That, at the 

 age of 50, three fourths of life are gone, the 

 remaining chance extending only to 16 or 17 

 years longer. 



Buttheie phyfical truths, however mortifying, 

 may be alleviated by moral confiderations. 1 he 

 iirft 15 years of our exigence may be regarded 

 "18 nothing : Every thing that pafics during this 

 long period, is either obliterated from the me- 

 mory, or has fo little connettibn 'with the views 

 and objedls which afterwards occupy our atten- 

 tion, that it ceafes entirely to be. interefting. 

 The train of our ideas, and even the nature of 

 om exiflcncc, fuiler a total change. "We bcgiri 

 liot to live> in a moral fenfe, till afier we have 



learned 



