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all further encrease impossible. But measures taken
with which have the effect of encreasing the number
of those whose condition renders them a burthen to
themselves as well as the community are particularly
pernicious: if you must pay them better pay
them for not breeding than for breeding. Donations
given to persons members of this burthensome class contribute
to their breeding in two ways. They enable It puts brings
marriage into in some instances within the power of the person who is the
object of the bounty: and it encourages invites to marriage
in persons other persons of the same class by taking
away the check that would be opposed to it by a
view of the impossibility of subsisting in that state.
Now on And thus it is that the more copiously you apply this
remedy the more copiously you spread the disease: and the
more money you waste in this way, the more you are called upon to waste.
Nor yet does it afford any encouragement to marriage
and population upon the whole: for some it even
not be given to the idle without having been first
taken from the industrious, it checks marriage in the
latter still more than it promotes it in the former.
I say still more: for ten times what would maintain
a working man will not scarcely maintain
one high-born idler.

As many as Those who have not enough to live happy with upon
had better not have been born at all. Happiness
not population is the proper end in view: produce
the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	047	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3348
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