Malthus, Thomas, Robert, An Essay on the Principle of Population ...

from the lower classes of society - All the checks to population may
be resolved into misery or vice.
CHAPTER 6 ......................................................................................32
New colonies - Reasons for their rapid increase - North American
Colonies - Extraordinary instance of increase in the back settlements
- Rapidity with which even old states recover the ravages of war,
pestilence, famine, or the convulsions of nature.
CHAPTER 7 ......................................................................................36
A probable cause of epidemics - Extracts from Mr Suessmilch’s
tables - Periodical returns of sickly seasons to be expected in certain
cases - Proportion of births to burials for short periods in any
country an inadequate criterion of the real average increase of
population - Best criterion of a permanent increase of population -
Great frugality of living one of the causes of the famines of China
and Indostan - Evil tendency of one of the clauses in Mr Pitt’s Poor
Bill - Only one proper way of encouraging population - Causes of the
Happiness of nations - Famine, the last and most dreadful mode by
which nature represses a redundant population - The three
propositions considered as established.
CHAPTER 8 ......................................................................................45
Mr Wallace - Error of supposing that the difficulty arising from
population is at a great distance - Mr Condorcet’s sketch of the
progress of the human mind - Period when the oscillation, mentioned
by Mr Condorcet, ought to be applied to the human race.
CHAPTER 9 ......................................................................................49
Mr Condorcet’s conjecture concerning the organic perfectibility of
man, and the indefinite prolongation of human life - Fallacy of the
argument, which infers an unlimited progress from a partial
improvement, the limit of which cannot be ascertained, illustrated in
the breeding of animals, and the cultivation of plants.
CHAPTER 10.....................................................................................55
Mr Godwin’s system of equality - Error of attributing all the vices of
mankind to human institutions - Mr Godwin’s first answer to the
difficulty arising from population totally insufficient - Mr Godwin’s
beautiful system of equality supposed to be realized - In utter
destruction simply from the principle of population in so short a time
as thirty years.
CHAPTER 11.....................................................................................66
Mr Godwin’s conjecture concerning the future extinction of the
passion between the sexes - Little apparent grounds for such a
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