An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

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8,264
words a sentence
29.1
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Areopagitica, John Milton. More twins

David Hume on the shelf

4 books by David Hume are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names David Hume as its author. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, David Hume's punctuation is closest to John Locke's.

David Hume's average fingerprint

David Hume on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookDavid Hume's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons14.013.67.6
Commas107.5100.878.1
Colons5.03.61.8
Exclamation marks0.40.42.0
Question marks3.03.22.8
Words per sentence29.129.117.7
Dialogue1%1%18%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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