Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Principles of Population: Exhibiting a System of Regulations for the Poor
An Author, in soliciting attention to a work on the subject of Population, and the means of removing distress amongst a great body of the people, runs little risk of deceiving himself in respect to the intrinsic importance of his theme. By common consent amongst all classes of statesmen, the poor laws both in England and Ireland, and every inquiry relating to the correction of indigence, are pronounced to be the most vital questions in public economy, demanding the earliest, closest, and most devoted consideration of the legislature And, indeed, if all the bearings of these questions be traced, this estimation of their paramount importance will neither be found disproportioned to real exigencies, nor to spring exclusively from that direction of public discussion towards popular subjects, which some individuals, who, in the texture of their minds, are more of the past age than the present, occasionally urge.
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