The Most Baleful Mischiefs May Be Expected

In Prosperous Times The Mercantile Classes Often Realize Fortunes, Which Go Far Towards Securing Them Against The Future; But Unfortunately The Working Classes, Though They Share In The General Prosperity, Do Not Share In It So Largely As In The General Adversity.

Population Regulates Itself By The Funds Which Are To Employ It, And Therefore Always Increases Or Diminishes With The Increase Or The Diminution Of Capital. Every Reduction Of Capital Is Therefore Necessarily Followed By A Less Effective Demand For Corn, By A Fall In Price, And By A Diminished Cultivation.

The Moon Is Not Kept In Her Orbit Round The Earth, Nor The Earth In Her Orbit Round The Sun, By A Force That Varies Merely In The Inverse Ratio Of The Squares Of The Distances.

It Is Not The Most Pleasant Employment To Spend Eight Hours A Day In A Counting House.

In 1860, Sixty-three Per Cent Of The Couples Married In Great Britain Had Families Of Four Or More Children; In 1925 Only Twenty Per Cent Had More Than Four.