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An essay on the principle of population, or, A view of its past and present effects on human happiness : with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions / by T.R. Malthus.

  • Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
Date:
1807
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    in the way of an union to which fuch an at- tachment would lead, and no caufes of depopu- lation afterwards, the increafe of the human fpecies would be evidently much greater than any increafe which has been hitherto known. In the northern ftates of America, where the means of fubfiftence have been more ample, the manners of the people more pure, and the checks to early marriages fewer, than in any of the mo- dern ftates of Europe, the population has been found to double itfelf, for above a century and a half fucceffively, in lefs than in each period of twenty-five vears \ Yet even during thefe pe- riods, in fome of the towns, the deaths exceeded the birthsb, a circumftance which clearly proves that in thofe parts of the country which fup- plied this deficiency, the increafe muft have been much more rapid than the general aver- 0* ' iy?.>£iM- ■™y'>] ' 4 -J In the back fettlements, where the fole em- ployment is agriculture, and vicious cuftoms a It appears from fome recent calculations and ertimates, that from the firft fettlement of America, to the year 1800, the periods of doubling have been but very little above twenty years. See a note on the increafe of American population in Book ii. chap. xi. * price's Obferv. on Reverf. Pay, vol.i. p. 374. Edit. 4to. and