Essay on Population. - The principal argument against the perfectibility of man and of society has never been fairly answered - Nature of the difficulty arising from population -
Title: Essay on Population. - The principal argument against the perfectibility of man and of society has never been fairly answered - Nature of the difficulty arising from population -
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 2138 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Essay on Population. - The principal argument against the perfectibility of man and of society has never been fairly answered - Nature of the difficulty arising from population -
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 2138 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
THE great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years in natural philosophy, the increasing diffusion of general knowledge from the extension of the art of printing, the ardent and unshackled spirit of inquiry that prevails throughout the lettered and even unlettered world, the new and extraordinary lights that have been thrown on political subjects which dazzle and astonish the understanding, and particularly that tremendous phenomenon in the political horizon, the French
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ease, happiness, and comparative leisure; and feel no anxiety about providing the means of subsistence for themselves and families.
Consequently, if the premises are just, the argument is conclusive against the perfectibility of the mass of mankind.
I have thus sketched the general outline of the argument, but I will examine it more particularly, and I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.