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No State Has Hitherto Existed (at Least That We Have Any Account Of) ... That No Check Whatever Has Existed To Early Marriages, Among The Lower Classes, From A Fear Of Not Providing Well For Their Families, Or Among The Higher Classes, From A Fear Of Lowering Their Condition In Life.

It Is A Mere Futile Process To Exchange One Set Of Commodities For Another, If The Parties; After This New Distribution Of Goods Has Taken Place, Are Not Better Off Than They Were Before.

The Perpetual Tendency Of The Race Of Man To Increase Beyond The Means Of Subsistence Is One Of The General Laws Of Animated Nature, Which We Can Have No Reason To Expect To Change.

Population, When Unchecked, Increases In A Geometrical Ratio. Subsistence Increases Only In An Arithmetical Ratio. A Slight Acquaintance With Numbers Will Shew The Immensity Of The First Power In Comparison Of The Second.

In A State Therefore Of Great Equality And Virtue, Where Pure And Simple Manners Prevailed, The Increase Of The Human Species Would Evidently Be Much Greater Than Any Increase That Has Been Hitherto Known.