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

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.

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

Capitals accumulate faster than population

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

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

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.