The World's Population Will Multiply More Rapidly

Population Regulates Itself By The Funds Which Are To Employ It, And Therefore Always Increases Or Diminishes With The Increase Or The Diminution Of Capital. Every Reduction Of Capital Is Therefore Necessarily Followed By A Less Effective Demand For Corn, By A Fall In Price, And By A Diminished Cultivation.

Where There Are Few People, And A Great Quantity Of Fertile Land, The Power Of The Earth To Afford A Yearly Increase Of Food May Be Compared To A Great Reservoir Of Water, Supplied By A Moderate Stream. The Faster Population Increases, The More Help Will Be Got To Draw Off The Water, And Consequently An Increasing Quantity Will Be Taken Every Year. But The Sooner, Undoubtedly, Will The Reservoir Be Exhausted, And The Streams Only Remain.

It Is Also Very Important To Observe, That Menial Servants Are Absolutely Necessary To Make The Resources Of The Higher And Middle Classes Of Society Efficient In The Demand For Material Products.

[p]opulation, When Unchecked, Goes On Doubling Itself Every Twenty-five Years, Or Increases In A Geometrical Ratio. ... [t]he Means Of Subsistence, Under Circumstances The Most Favorable To Human Industry, Could Not Possibly Be Made To Increase Faster Than In An Arithmetical Ratio.

It Is An Acknowledged Truth In Philosophy That A Just Theory Will Always Be Confirmed By Experiment.