Nature Herself In Times Of Great Poverty

I Do Not Know That Any Writer Has Supposed That On This Earth Man Will Ultimately Be Able To Live Without Food.

A Writer May Tell Me That He Thinks Man Will Ultimately Become An Ostrich. I Cannot Properly Contradict Him.

The Histories Of Mankind Are Histories Only Of The Higher Classes.

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.

It Does Not, However, Seem Impossible That By An Attention To Breed, A Certain Degree Of Improvement, Similar To That Among Animals, Might Take Place Among Men. Whether Intellect Could Be Communicated May Be A Matter Of Doubt: But Size, Strength, Beauty, Complexion, And Perhaps Even Longevity Are In A Degree Transmissible... As The Human Race Could Not Be Improved In This Way, Without Condemning All The Bad Specimens To Celibacy, It Is Not Probable, That An Attention To Breed Should Ever Become General.