It Is Not The Most Pleasant Employment

The Redundant Population, Necessarily Occasioned By The Prevalence Of Early Marriages, Must Be Repressed By Occasional Famines, And By The Custom Of Exposing Children, Which, In Times Of Distress, Is Probably More Frequent Than Is Ever Acknowledged To Europeans.

Whether The Law Of Marriage Be Instituted Or Not, The Dictate Of Nature And Virtue Seems To Be An Early Attachment To One Woman.

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.

The Superior Power Of Population Cannot Be Checked Without Producing Misery Or Vice.

Where Are We To Look For The Consumption Required But Among The Unproductive Labourers Of Adam Smith?.