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

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

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.

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

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.