I avow the charge, and I shall presently make it good to your lordship's satisfaction.

The numbers I particularized are about thirty-six millions.

Besides those killed in battles I have said something, not half what the matter would have justified, but something I have said concerning the consequences of war even more dreadful than that monstrous carnage itself which shocks our humanity, and almost staggers our belief.

So that, allowing me in my exuberance one way for my deficiencies in the other, you will find me not unreasonable.

I think the numbers of men now upon earth are computed at five hundred millions at the most.