Thomas Malthus：An Essay on the Principle of Population, Excerpt 142

Models too perfect may sometimes rather impede than promote improvement--Mr Godwin's essay on 'Avarice and Profusion'--Impossibility of dividing the necessary labour of a society amicably among all--Invectives against labour may produce present evil, with little or no chance of producing future good--An accession to the mass of agricultural labour must always be an advantage to the labourer.

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