The Constant Effort Towards Population, Which Is

Where Are We To Look For The Consumption Required But Among The Unproductive Labourers Of Adam Smith?.

It Is An Acknowledged Truth In Philosophy That A Just Theory Will Always Be Confirmed By Experiment.

It Has Appeared That From The Inevitable Laws Of Our Nature, Some Human Beings Must Suffer From Want. These Are The Unhappy Persons Who, In The Great Lottery Of Life, Have Drawn A Blank.

The Greatest Talents Have Been Frequently Misapplied And Have Produced Evil Proportionate To The Extent Of Their Powers. Both Reason And Revelation Seem To Assure Us That Such Minds Will Be Condemned To Eternal Death, But While On Earth, These Vicious Instruments Performed Their Part In The Great Mass Of Impressions, By The Disgust And Abhorrence Which They Excited.

The Redundant Population, Necessarily Occasioned By The Prevalence Of Early Marriages, Must Be Repressed By Occasional Famines, And By The Custom Of Exposing Children, Which, In Times Of Distress, Is Probably More Frequent Than Is Ever Acknowledged To Europeans.