Thomas Malthus：An Essay on the Principle of Population, Excerpt 49

The second, or positive check to population examined, in England--The true cause why the immense sum collected in England for the poor does not better their condition--The powerful tendency of the poor laws to defeat their own purpose--Palliative of the distresses of the poor proposed--The absolute impossibility, from the fixed laws of our nature, that the pressure of want can ever be completely removed from the lower classes of society--All the checks to population may be resolved into misery or vice.

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