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C 17 Paederasty
Whether it hurts population?
-fluous vigour, in the same proportion would population
be increased promoted.
No one, I hope, will [from what has been
here said] take occasion to suppose, that from any
thing here said I mean to infer the propriety of
affording any encouragement to this miserable
taste for the sake of population. The trouble is Such
an inference would be as ill founded as it would be
cruel [a]. The truth is, population the Legislator Sovereign if he
will but conduct himself with tolerable attention
to with respect to the happiness of his subjects need never be
in any pain about the number of them. he has
no need to be ever at the expense of a any direct efforts
levelled in a direct line at the purpose of for increasing
it. Nature will do her own work fast enough
without his assistance, if he will but refrain from
giving her disturbance. Let him be but quiet he has no occasion to be busy. Such infamous expedients
would be as improper as any violent coercive ones
are unnecessary. Even monks in the countries that
are most infected with them are not near so pernicious
by the deduction they make from the sum of
population, as by the miseries which they inflict produce and
suffer, and by the prejudices of which of all kinds they are
the propagators and the dupes.
It has been
[a] I leave any one to imagine what a
such a man writer as Swift for instance might make upon
this theme; "A project for promoting population by the encouragement
"of paederasty."
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