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The Power Of Population Is So Superior To The Power Of The Earth To Produce Subsistence For Man, That Premature Death Must In Some Shape Or Other Visit The Human Race.

The Finest Minds Seem To Be Formed Rather By Efforts At Original Thinking, By Endeavours To Form New Combinations, And To Discover New Truths, Than By Passively Receiving The Impressions Of Other Men's Ideas.

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 Most Successful Supporters Of Tyranny Are Without Doubt Those General Declaimers Who Attribute The Distresses Of The Poor, And Almost All Evils To Which Society Is Subject, To Human Institutions And The Iniquity Of Governments.

The Main Peculiarity Which Distinguishes Man From Other Animals Is The Means Of His Support - The Power Which He Possesses Of Very Greatly Increasing These Means.