The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

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 superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.