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

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

Man cannot live in the midst of plenty.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

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