ON THE

PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION;

OR,

A VIEW OF ITS PAST AND PRESENT EFFECTS

ON

HUMAN HAPPINESS ;

WITH

AN INQUIRY INTO OUR PROSPECTS RESPECTING THE FUTURE
REMOVAL OR MITIGATION OF THE EVILS WHICH

IT OCCASIONS.

BY T. R. MALTHUS, A. M.

Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Professor of History and
Political Economy in the East-India College, Hertfordshire.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

THE FIFTH EDITION,

WITH IMPORTANT ADDITIONS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1817.

F-313-204

Printed by W. CLOWES, Northumberland-court, Strand, London.

VI. Of the Checks to Population in France ....

VII. Of the Checks to Population in France

(continued)

Page

1

31

VIII. Of the Checks to Population in England.. 42

IX. Of the Checks to Population in England

XII. Effects of Epidemics on Registers of Births,

BOOK III.

OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OR EXPEDIENTS WHICH

HAVE BEEN PROPOSED OR HAVE PREVAILED IN

SOCIETY, AS THEY AFFECT THE EVILS ARISING

FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION.

CHAP.

I. Of Systems of Equality. Wallace, Condor-

cet.

II. Of Systems of Equality. Godwin..

III. Of Systems of Equality (continued)

IV. Of Emigration

V. Of Poor-Laws

VI. Of Poor-Laws (continued)

VII. Of Poor-Laws (continued)

VIII. Of the Agricultural System

IX. Of the Commercial System

Page

218

248

...

351

381

402

420

X. Of Systems of Agriculture and Commerce,

combined

....

XI. Of Corn-Laws. Bounties upon Exportation. 443

XII. Of Corn-Laws. Restrictions upon Importa-

tion

475

ESSAY,

ESSAY,

&c. &c.

BOOK II.

OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN THE DIFFERENT STATES OF MODERN EUROPE.

CHAP. VI.

Of the Checks to Population in France. As the parochial registers in France, before the revolution, were not kept with particular care, nor for any great length of time, and as the few which have been produced exhibit no very extraordinary results, I should not have made this country the subject of a distinct chapter, but for a circumstance attending the revolution, which has excited considerable surprise. This is, the undiminished state of the population in spite of the losses sustained during so long and destructive a contest.

VOL. II.

B

A great