To Minds Of A Certain Cast There

Had Population And Food Increased In The Same Ratio, It Is Probable That Man Might Never Have Emerged From The Savage State.

The Love Of Independence Is A Sentiment That Surely None Would Wish To See Erased From The Breast Of Man, Though The Parish Law Of England, It Must Be Confessed, Is A System Of All Others The Most Calculated Gradually To Weaken This Sentiment, And In The End May Eradicate It Completely.

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

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.

The Prodigious Waste Of Human Life Occasioned By This Perpetual Struggle For Room And Food, Was More Than Supplied By The Mighty Power Of Population, Acting, In Some Degree, Unshackled, From The Constant Habit Of Emigration.