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Excerpt from The True Law of Population Shewn to Be Connected With the Food of the People
IN venturing to bring a third and enlarged edition of the following work before the public, its author has little of prefatory matter to adduce. Having, from the first, aimed to build an hypothesis upon the sure foundation of a multitude of facts, all pointing one way and all corroborating each other, his sole attempt in the present volume has been to add to the number of these facts. Without such a founda tion as this, theory, however plausible, is of little value. In his quest of materials, therefore, the author has not been' sparing of research; and With the more prominent proofs of the universality of the principles laid down, he has not hesitated to note the minutest truths that seem to bear upon the question. Of the theory itself, as originally put before the world, he has nothing to retract nor to alter nor has be any thing to add to it. To the principles of increase.
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