their families.

no anxiety about providing the means of subsistence for themselves and

which should live in ease, happiness, and comparative leisure; and feel

decisive against the possible existence of a society, all the members of

of it even for a single century. And it appears, therefore, to be

agrarian regulations in their utmost extent, could remove the pressure

of this law which pervades all animated nature. No fancied equality, no

comparison of this. I see no way by which man can escape from the weight

All other arguments are of slight and subordinate consideration in

me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.

constantly keep their effects equal, form the great difficulty that to

production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must

This natural inequality of the two powers of population and of