Capitals Accumulate Faster Than Population

It Has Been Said, And Perhaps With Truth, That The Conclusions Of Political Economy Partake More Of The Certainty Of The Stricter Sciences Than Those Of Most Of The Other Branches Of Human Knowledge.

The Natural Inequality Of The Two Powers Of Population And Of Production In The Earth, And That Great Law Of Our Nature Which Must Constantly Keep Their Efforts Equal, Form The Great Difficulty That To Me Appears Insurmountable In The Way To The Perfectibility Of Society.

It Is A Mere Futile Process To Exchange One Set Of Commodities For Another, If The Parties; After This New Distribution Of Goods Has Taken Place, Are Not Better Off Than They Were Before.

If One Fourth Of The Capital Of A Country Were Suddenly Destroyed, Or Entirely Transferred To A Different Part Of The World, Without Any Other Cause Occurring Of A Diminished Demand For Commodities, This Scantiness Of Capital Would Certainly Occasion Great Inconvenience To Consumers, And Great Distress Among The Working Classes; But It Would Be Attended With Great Advantages To The Remaining Capitalists.

Instead Of Recommending Cleanliness To The Poor, We Should Encourage Contrary Habits. In Our Towns We Should Make The Streets Narrower, Crowd More People Into The Houses, And Court The Return Of The Plague.