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Excerpt from The Malthusian Herald, Vol. 1: Devoted to the Solution of the Great Social Problem No vote would be taken, the sole object of the discussion being the elucidation of the truth. Mr. Hills took as his keynote that perfect chastity, save for the purposes of procreation, was incumbent on all. He said emphatically that people had no right to have more children than they could support. The ideal of perfect purity was not ascetic celi...

Excerpt from An Essay on the Principle of Population, Vol. 3 of 3: 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 VI. Effects of the Knowledge of the principal Cause of Poverty on Civil Liberty VII. Continuation of the same Subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

Excerpt from A Letter to Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M. P: On His Proposed Bill for the Amendment of the Poor Laws Sir, As you have done me the honour to refer more than once to my work on Population, and to express your conviction of the truth of its fundamental principles, I trust you will pardon the liberty I take in offering to you a few remarks, which an attentive perusal of your bill on the Poor Laws has suggested. About the Publisher Fo...

Excerpt from Additions to the Fourth and Former: Editions of an Essay on the Principle of Population, &C, &C, VII. Effects of the Knowledge of the principal Cause of Poverty on Civll lerty (continued)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digit...

Excerpt from An Essay on Population, Vol. 2 To a person who views the past and present states of mankind in the light in which they have appeared in the two preceding books, it cannot but be a matter of astonishment that all the writers on the perfectibility of man and of society, who have noticed the argument of the principle of population, treat it always very lightly, and invariably represent the difficulties arising from it as at a great ...

Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Nature and Progress of Rent: And the Principles by Which It Is Regulated The following Tract contains the substance of some notes on Rent, which, with others on different subjects relating to political economy, I have collected in the course of my professional duties at the East India College. It has been my intention, at some time or other, to put them in a form for publication, and the very near connextion o...

Excerpt from An Essay on the Principle of Population, Vol. 1 of 3: 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, In Three VolumesIT has been justly remarked that few writers have been so much discussed as Malthus by persons who have never read his works, few men have been so violently abused both by his own and by sub...

Excerpt from An Essay on the Principle of Population, Vol. 2 of 2: 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 Occassions IT would be extremely desirable to be able to deduce from the rate of increase, the actual population, and the registers of births, deaths, and marriages, in different countries, the real prolificness of ...

Excerpt from Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws: And of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn on the Agriculture and General Wealth of the Country A Revision of the Corn Laws, it is understood, is immediately to come under the consideration of the legislature. That the decision on such a subject, should be founded on a correct and enlightened view of the whole question, will be allowed to be of the utmost importance, both with regard ...

Excerpt from Parallel Chapters From the First and Second Editions of an Essay on the Principle of Population: 1798: 1803In reprinting the chapters from the first and second editions the original spelling and punctuation have been followed. After the second edition the text of the work remained substantially the same, but frequent changes of diction were made, in most cases to improve the style, but in some to remove objections by more carefull...

Excerpt from Statements Respecting the East-India College: With an Appeal to Facts, In Refutation of the Charges Lately Brought Against It, in the Court of Proprietors The following statements, with the exception of the last head, were written some time since, on account of a rumour then prevailing of charges being meditated in the Court of Proprietors, which I thought were likely to be founded in an ignorance of the real state of the college...

Excerpt from Definitions in Political Economy: Preceded by an Inquiry Into the Rules Which Ought to Guide Political Economists in the Definition and Use of Their Terms, With Remarks on the Deviation From These Rules in Their WritingsIN a mathematical definition, although the words in which it is expressed may vary, the meaning which it is intended to convey is always the same. Whether a straight line be defined to be a line which lies evenly b...

Excerpt from Principles of Political Economy: Considered With a View to Their Practical ApplicationThis conclusion, which could hardly fail to be formed merely from a view of the subjects about which political economy is conversant, is further, strengthened by the differences of opinion which have prevailed among those who have directed a large share of talent and attention to this study.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

Excerpt from 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 OccasionsMr. Townfend, as to create a natural furprife, that it had not excited more Of the publick attention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotten...

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Excerpt from An Essay on the Principle of Population, Vol. 2 of 3: 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 OccasionsLate Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Prtjessor of Hwtory and Political Economy in tlze east-indza College, Hertfordslure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...