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Charles R. Drysdale. Life and Writings of Thomas R. Malthus
Life and Writings of Thomas R. Malthus
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PREFACE
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS. OF. THOMAS R. MALTHUS
CHAPTER II. AN ANALYSIS OF THE “ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION.”
CHAPTER III. OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS
CHAPTER IV. CHECKS TO POPULATION IN MODERN EUROPE
CHAPTER V. OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN FRANCE
CHAPTER VI. ON THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND
CHAPTER VII. DETACHED ESSAYS
CHAPTER IX. OF POOR LAWS
CHAPTER X. WEALTH AS IT AFFECTS THE POOR
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
APPENDIX
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Charles R. Drysdale
Published by Good Press, 2022
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From this experience of his, he was led to the conclusion that early marriage, as a rule, was certain to lead to poverty and the positive checks to population; and, therefore, in his practical maxims for improving the condition of the poorer classes, he looked forward solely to the exercise of that celibacy, which he had found so often accompanied by long life and material comforts.
Had Mr. Malthus lived at this moment, he would have been aware of the remarkable fact, that the French peasantry of modern days have, simply from experience and without any theory, become acquainted with the results of his enquiries, that a rapid increase of births leads inevitably to poverty and early death. To quote from the most celebrated of French statists, M. Maurice Block, the artizans of towns, and peasant proprietors of whole districts of France, are accustomed to limit the size of their families to two children; and thus, although France is the most noted for its number of married couples of all European States, it is also the country in all Europe which is the least rapid in the increase of its population. The population check in France, then, Malthus, had he lived, would have found to be, not celibacy, but the voluntary limitation of families, in the midst of a married and most moral and domestic community. The great philanthropist, who was so distinguished for his charming temper and amiability, could not have failed, we may rest assured, to have, with J. S. Mill, Garnier, and Sismondi, given the preference to the modern French checks to population over all others.
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