An Essay on the Principle of Population

If a revelation from heaven of which no person could feel the smallest doubt were to dispel the mists that now hang over metaphysical subjects,…

Our ideas of virtue and vice are not, perhaps, very accurate and well-defined; but few, I think, would call an action really virtuous which was…

Life is, generally speaking, a blessing independent of a future state. It is a gift which the vicious would not always be ready to throw away, even…

The striking necessity of general laws for the formation of intellect will not in any respect be contradicted by one or two exceptions, and these…

It would be, undoubtedly, presumptuous to say that the Supreme Being could not possibly have effected his purpose in any other way than that which he…

The idea that the impressions and excitements of this world are the instruments with which the Supreme Being forms matter into mind, and that the…

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. We are not patiently to submit to it, but to exert ourselves to avoid it. It is not only…