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Even with in a view to national defence measures
for encreasing population are not less idle vain than in
any other. If the nation can support is able to defend itself with
its present numbers a future will it be at the
end of 20 years when in the natural course of
things and without any thing done by the state
to help it the numbers must be much greater
than now: If it is not, it is not any measures
that which can time be taken that can contribute any
thing to this purpose.

Let it work as fast as it will it will require
a year to produce a child and at least 19 others more
to produce fit him for the field.

The anxiety that has been shown on this head
and the expedients that have been employed in this
view, the variety of ways in which people have been
plagued in order to make them breed are truly pitiable.
On this ground pre views of false views of
economy are joined and fortified by prejudices drawn
from the principle of asceticism. A hint like this
will serve for such as you, and by such as it will
not serve for, I it were better I should not be
understood.

Those who have not enough to live happy with upon
had

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3349
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