The Ordeal Of Virtue Is To Resist

If It Be Taught That All Who Are Born Have A Right To Support On The Land, Whatever Be Their Number, And That There Is No Occasion To Exercise Any Prudence In The Affair Of Marriage So As To Check This Number, The Temptations, According To All The Known Principles Of Human Nature, Will Inevitably Be Yielded To, And More And More Will Gradually Become Dependent On Parish Assistance.

The Proposition Of Mr. Ricardo, Which States That A Rise In The Price Of Labour Lowers The Price Of A Large Class Of Commodities, Has Undoubtedly A Very Paradoxical Air; But It Is, Nevertheless, True, And The Appearance Of Paradox Would Vanish, If It Were Stated More Naturally And Correctly.

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.

Each Pursues His Own Theory, Little Solicitous To Correct Or Improve It By An Attention To What Is Advanced By His Opponents.

No Limits Whatever Are Placed To The Productions Of The Earth; They May Increase Forever.