Pamphleteer

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HINTS FOR THE CULTIVATION OF THE PEAT-BOGS WITH A VIEW TO THE INCREASE OF POPULATION, SECURITY, AND PUBLIC HAPPINESS, ESPECIALLY IN THAT PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. LETTER THE REV. T. MALTHUS. ORIGINAL. HINTS, REV. SIR, In the pages which I now take the liberty of addressing to you, I am indebted for most...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HINTS FOR THE CULTIVATION OF THE PEAT-BOGS WITH A VIEW TO THE INCREASE OF POPULATION, SECURITY, AND PUBLIC HAPPINESS, ESPECIALLY IN THAT PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. LETTER THE REV. T. MALTHUS. ORIGINAL. HINTS, REV. SIR, In the pages which I now take the liberty of addressing to you, I am indebted for most of the principles, and many of the facts, on which I have proceeded, to your excellent treatise on population. I have, therefore, adopted the present form, as the most suitable way of acknowledging that obligation. Your work is so well known and so generally studied, that my readers will readily distinguish those parts of the arguments for which I alone am responsible: and the same circumstance will render unnecessary such frequent references and long quotations, as would to many persons appear tedious. This will be the more easily avoided in an essay addressed to yourself; in which of course it will be allowed to assume at once those principles which you have established by a detailed argument. It seems indeed to be generally admitted at present by the thinking part of the community, that, desirable as population is in itself, the only rational way, not only to render it efficient, and truly yaluable, but ultimately to increase its absolute amc unt, is, not by direct and positive encouragement, but by increasing the means of subsistence. By what methods it is most practicable or most advisable to effect this, is the principal question that remains. Colonization is one which holds out appearances peculiarly specious. Besides the glory of extending the empire of our country, and of spreading civilization, and religion, and increasedhappiness, among barbarous nations; besides the benefit of opening a new vent for our commerce; the system ...