The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

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

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

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.

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

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.