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• The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty…
• Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
• The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
• Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase…
• The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of…
• No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early…
• Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew…
• The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
• Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
• The perpetual struggle for room and food.
• The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
• It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy…

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