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

China would not be improved by an increase of wealth from
manufactures.
CHAPTER 17...................................................................................103
Question of the proper definition of the wealth of a state - Reason
given by the French economists for considering all manufacturers as
unproductive labourers, not the true reason - The labour of artificers
and manufacturers sufficiently productive to individuals, though not
to the state - A remarkable passage in Dr Price’s two volumes of
Observations - Error of Dr Price in attributing the happiness and
rapid population of America, chiefly, to its peculiar state of
civilization - No advantage can be expected from shutting our eyes to
the difficulties in the way to the improvement of society.
CHAPTER 18...................................................................................110
The constant pressure of distress on man, from the principle of
population, seems to direct our hopes to the future - State of trial
inconsistent with our ideas of the foreknowledge of God - The world,
probably, a mighty process for awakening matter into mind - Theory
of the formation of mind - Excitements from the wants of the body -
Excitements from the operation of general laws - Excitements from
the difficulties of life arising from the principle of population.
CHAPTER 19...................................................................................118
The sorrows of life necessary to soften and humanize the heart - The
excitement of social sympathy often produce characters of a higher
order than the mere possessors of talents - Moral evil probably
necessary to the production of moral excellence - Excitements from
intellectual wants continually kept up by the infinite variety of nature,
and the obscurity that involves metaphysical subjects - The
difficulties in revelation to be accounted for upon this principle - The
degree of evidence which the scriptures contain, probably, best suited
to the improvements of the human faculties, and the moral
amerlioration of mankind - The idea that mind is created by
excitements seems to account for the existence of natural and moral
evil.
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