r * 8? ) • 
lefs than any affignable Fraction. From whence it fol- 
lows, that it is Art, not Chance, that governs. 
There Teems no more probable Caufe to be afligned in 
Phyficks for this Equality oi the Births, than that in 
our firft Parents* Seed there were at firCt formed an equal 
Number of both Sexes. 
Scholium. From hence it follows, that Polygamy is 
contrary to. the Law of Nature and juftice, and to the 
Propagation of Human Race 5 for where Males and 
and Females are in equal number, if one Man takes 
Twenty Wives, Nineteen Men mutt live in Celibacy, 
which is repugnant to the Defign of Nature 5 nor is ft 
probable thar Twenty Women will be fo well impreg- 
nated by one Man as by T wenty. 
Chriftened. 
Anno. 
1629 
3° 
3 1 
3 2 
33 
34 
n 
3 6 
3 7 
38 
39 
. 4° 
4 1 
4 2 
4 $ 
44 
45 
46 
47 
Males. 
5218 
4853 
.4422 
4994 
5158 
5°35 
5» 06 
49 1 7 
47°3 
5359 
5366 
5518 
5470 
5460 
479? 
4 I0 7 
4047 
3768 
379<* 
Females. 
4683 
4457 
4102 
4590 
4839 
4820 
4928 
4605 
4457 
4952 
4784 
5332 
5200 
49 10 
4617 
399 7 
3919 
3395 
3 536 
Chriftened. 
Bb 
Anno , 
1648 
49 
50 
5 1 
5 2 
53 
54 
55 
56 
57 
58 
59 
60 
& l&i 
62 
63 
64 
66 
Males. 
33$3 
3079 
289O 
323I 
3 220 
3196 
344* 
3^55 
3668 
339 6 
3157 
3209 
3724 
474 8 
5216 
5411 
6041 
5114 
4678 
Females. 
3181 
2746 
2722 
2840 
2908 
29 59 
5 1 79 
3349 
3382 
3289 
3° >3 
2781 
3247 
4*°7 
4 8oj 
4881 
5681 
4858 
4319 
Chriftened. 
