The Transfer Of Three Shillings And Sixpence

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.

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

When Hume And Adam Smith Prophesied That A Little Increase Of National Debt Beyond The Then Amount Of It, Would Probably Occasion Bankruptcy; The Main Cause Of Their Error Was The Natural One, Of Not Being Able To See The Vast Increase Of Productive Power To Which The Nation Would Subsequently Obtain.

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.

The Immediate Cause Of The Increase Of Population Is The Excess Of The Births Above Deaths; And The Rate Of Increase, Or The Period Of Doubling, Depends Upon The Proportion Which The Excess Of The Births Above The Deaths Bears To The Population.