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

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 world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

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 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.

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.