The Superior Power Of Population Cannot Be

The Employment Of The Poor In Roads And Public Works, And A Tendency Among Landlords And Persons Of Property To Build, To Improve And Beautify Their Grounds, And To Employ Workmen And Menial Servants, Are The Means Most Within Our Power And Most Directly Calculated To Remedy The Evils Arising From That Disturbance In The Balance Of Produce And Consumption.

The Friend Of The Present Order Of Things Condemns All Political Speculations In The Gross.

If One Fourth Of The Capital Of A Country Were Suddenly Destroyed, Or Entirely Transferred To A Different Part Of The World, Without Any Other Cause Occurring Of A Diminished Demand For Commodities, This Scantiness Of Capital Would Certainly Occasion Great Inconvenience To Consumers, And Great Distress Among The Working Classes; But It Would Be Attended With Great Advantages To The Remaining Capitalists.

In A State Therefore Of Great Equality And Virtue, Where Pure And Simple Manners Prevailed, The Increase Of The Human Species Would Evidently Be Much Greater Than Any Increase That Has Been Hitherto Known.

If It Be Taught That All Who Are Born Have A Right To Support On The Land, Whatever Be Their Number, And That There Is No Occasion To Exercise Any Prudence In The Affair Of Marriage So As To Check This Number, The Temptations, According To All The Known Principles Of Human Nature, Will Inevitably Be Yielded To, And More And More Will Gradually Become Dependent On Parish Assistance.