The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise have lain for ever dormant, and it has been commonly remarked that new and extraordinary situations generally create minds adequate to grapple with the difficulties in which they are involved.