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industry, famines a Bason of limited demensions fed by an
industry, famines it is like a Bason of limited demensions fed by an
ample copious spring. tis not sending out colonies or fetching in foreigners that will increase or diminish the stock of inhabitants at the long run Take from it, and there is no diminution,
add to it and there is no encrease; to do affect the one or the other
you must enlarge or diminish it's capacity — were no infants
to die, a gap made by the loss of Children is not like one made by the loss of men — the first may & will be filled up instantly that of the second cannot but after an interval a whole of adolescence. and where were the numbers of those who arrive at adolescence
to equal & that of those who are born, to be the same would there the nation
be the more populous? no, they would only stand in the place
of an equal number of others and keep them out of existence — It is not here
the place to treat this subject with the extent that it might
admitt of and that it deserves — loose hints may be found in
other books: but whoever has read Mr Hume's admirable
Essay on Money This may relieve Legislators from much anxiety fruitlessly wasted upon the minutiae of propagation population if he is satisfied with that profound
politicians arguments reasoning in support of this Idea as applied
to that subject, as I think an unprejudiced reader can
hardly fail to be, will observe how exactly applicable it
is to the present. But if this reasoning does not satisfy, and if at any rate a factitious repletion must be employed to supply a factitious the foundling Hospital
[Mr Hume has developped and established this Idea in a masterly
manner in he as applied to the subject of Riches Money
in his Essay on the Ballance of Trade]
After what has been said, facility to procure subsistence will allure to marriage — the difficulty will deter. we shall not be quite so much disposed
as we should otherwise have been to wonder p. 4 with the Author of "Principles of Penal
Law" and so many other writers that not only the rugged Spartans but the accomplished
Athenians should have authorized by express permission
the exposition destruction of new born infants; + + there is a great deal of difference between this, & their other Law for putting commanding the aged and infirm to death [explain the reason] tho we may observe
with Mr Hume that this regulation produced in truth an
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