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

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

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

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

Capitals accumulate faster than population

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