This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...religious habits. I am, my dear Sir, Very truly yours, T. ROBT. MALTHUS. N. W. Senior, Esq. Lincoln's Inn, April 9, 1829. My Dear Sir, Our controversy has ended, as I believe few controversies ever terminated before, in mutual agreement. I think, how-A ever, that it may be well to close it by a few Le" remarks on the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...religious habits. I am, my dear Sir, Very truly yours, T. ROBT. MALTHUS. N. W. Senior, Esq. Lincoln's Inn, April 9, 1829. My Dear Sir, Our controversy has ended, as I believe few controversies ever terminated before, in mutual agreement. I think, how-A ever, that it may be well to close it by a few Le" remarks on the circumstances by which it was occasioned.. " / It is obvious that the principal causes by which the situation of a people can be im-Jj V proved, are those which occasion the amount of what is provided for their use to be in a greater proportion than before to their numbers. It seems a consequence equally obvious, that the principal means of improvement are those which promote the production of subsistence and prevent a corresponding multiplication of consumers. But the old doctrine was, that an increase of numbers is necessarily accompanied, not merely by a positive, but by a relative increase of productive power. Density of population was supposed to be the cause and the test of prosperity; its increase to be the chief object of our exertions, and depopulation to be a danger constantly besetting us. And statesmen and legislators were urged to stimulate population with as much earnestness, and about as much good sense, as they are now urged to stimulate consumption. Your work effected a complete revulsion in public opinion. You proved that additional numbers, instead of wealth, may bring poverty. That in civilized countries the evil to be feared is not the diminution, but the undue increase of inhabitants. That population, instead of being a torpid agent, requiring to be goaded by artificial stimulants, is a power almost always stronger than could be desired, and producing, unless restrained by constant prudence and self-denial, the ...
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