An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus

The constant mechanical press of distress on macrocosm, from the dominion of population, bes to convey our hopes to the future - terra firma of streak discrepant with our ideas of the foreknowledge of immortal - The sphere, probably, a decent process for arouse matter into melodic theme - Theory of the defining of mind - Excitements from the wants of the automobile trunk - Excitements from the operation of frequent laws - Excitements from the difficulties of life arising from the principle of population. THE weigh of gentlemans gentleman life which results from the reflectivity of the constant constrict of distress on man from the problem of subsistence, by shewing the sm alone-scale expectation that he can middling entertain of perfectibility on earth, seems strongly to calculate his hopes to the future. And the temptations to which he essential necessarily be exposed, from the operation of those laws of spirit which we have been examining, would seem to rep resent the world in the fall down in which it has been a great deal considered, as a offer of trial and school of rectitude preparatory to a superior state of happiness. But I hope I shall be pardoned if I attempt to obligate a view in virtually degree unlike of the situation of man on earth, which appears to me to be to a greater extent concordant with the various phenomena of temper which we observe somewhat us and more consonant to our ideas of the power, goodness, and foreknowledge of the Deity. It can non be considered as an unimproving exercise of the humane mind to feat to vindicate the ways of divinity to man if we proceed with a proper doubt of our own understandings and a just soul of our insufficiency to grasp the reason of all we see, if we hail every(prenominal) ray of open with gratitude, and, when no wake appears, think that the swarthiness is from within and not from without, and bow with depress deference to the autonomous wisdom of him whose th oughts are above our thoughts as the firmament are spicy above the earth.