In General It May Be

Instead Of Recommending Cleanliness To The Poor, We Should Encourage Contrary Habits. In Our Towns We Should Make The Streets Narrower, Crowd More People Into The Houses, And Court The Return Of The Plague.

To Remedy The Frequent Distresses Of The Common People, The Poor Laws Of England Have Been Instituted; But It Is To Be Feared That Though They May Have Alleviated A Little The Intensity Of Individual Misfortune, They Have Spread The General Evil Over A Much Larger Surface.

The Perpetual Tendency Of The Race Of Man To Increase Beyond The Means Of Subsistence Is One Of The General Laws Of Animated Nature, Which We Can Have No Reason To Expect To Change.

In A State Therefore Of Great Equality And Virtue, Where Pure And Simple Manners Prevailed, The Increase Of The Human Species Would Evidently Be Much Greater Than Any Increase That Has Been Hitherto Known.

[p]opulation, When Unchecked, Goes On Doubling Itself Every Twenty-five Years, Or Increases In A Geometrical Ratio. ... [t]he Means Of Subsistence, Under Circumstances The Most Favorable To Human Industry, Could Not Possibly Be Made To Increase Faster Than In An Arithmetical Ratio.