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 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.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

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.

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

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.