It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

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

The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.