Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.

The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.