If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

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

Capitals accumulate faster than population

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.