Parallel chapters from the first and second editions of An essay on the principle of population / by T.R. Malthus. 1798: 1803.

  • Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
Date:
1895
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    in the funds for the maintenance of labour.— The state of the poor in China would not be improved by an increase of wealth from manufactures. CHAP. XVII. Question of the proper definition of the wealth of a state. — Reason given by the French Economists for considering all vianufacturers as unproductive labotirers^ not the true reason. — The labour of arti- ficers and manufacturers sufficiently productive to individuals, though not to the state. — A remarkable passage in Dr. Triceps two volumes of observations.—Error of Dr. Price in attribtiting the happiness and rapid population of America, chiefly, to its peculiar state of civilization. — No advantage can be expected from shutting our eyes to the difficulties in the way to the i?}iprovement of society. CHAP. XVIII. The constant pressure of distress on man, from the principle of popula- tion, seems to direct our hopes to the future. — State of trial incon- sistent with our ideas of the forehtowledge of God. — The world., probably, a mighty process for aivakening matter into mind. — Theory of the formation of mind. — Excite??ients from the wants of the body. — Excitements frotn the operation of general lazvs. — Excitements from the diff cullies of life arising fro77i the principle ofpopulatio7i. CHAP. XIX. The sorrows of life necessary to softest and humanize the heart. — The excitements of social sympathy often produce characters of a higher order than the mere possessors of talents. — Moral evil probably necessary to the production of moral excellence. — Excitements from intellectual wants continually kept tip by the infinite variety of nature, and the obscurity that involves metaphysical subjects. — The difficulties in Revelation to be accounted for upon this principle. — The degree of evidence which the scriptures contain, probably, best suited to the improvement of the htiman faculties, and the moral amelioration of mankind. — The idea that mind is created by excitements., seems to account for the existence of fiatural and moral evil.