The Prodigious Waste Of Human Life Occasioned

If It Be Taught That All Who Are Born Have A Right To Support On The Land, Whatever Be Their Number, And That There Is No Occasion To Exercise Any Prudence In The Affair Of Marriage So As To Check This Number, The Temptations, According To All The Known Principles Of Human Nature, Will Inevitably Be Yielded To, And More And More Will Gradually Become Dependent On Parish Assistance.

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.

Hard As It May Appear In Individual Instances , Dependent Poverty Ought To Be Held Disgraceful.

It Is Also Very Important To Observe, That Menial Servants Are Absolutely Necessary To Make The Resources Of The Higher And Middle Classes Of Society Efficient In The Demand For Material Products.

No Limits Whatever Are Placed To The Productions Of The Earth; They May Increase Forever.