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Excerpt from Records of With an Introductory Discourse on Vital Statistics
As there is nothing in the whole compass of sublunary affairs of equal importance to mankind, whether in the abstract or the concrete, with the preservation of the lives of the species; so there are few things of greater interest to the student of human nature, whether the professional physiologist or only the common inquirer into the origin of things around him, than those remarkable departures from the ordinary duration of human life, by which some favoured individuals of our race have been distinguished. Because, not only have the lives of such persons been marked by a more extended duration than those of men generally, but most frequently, too, they have lived exempt from almost all those sicknesses and diseases te which even the members of their own families, with those of society around them, have been all but universally exposed.
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