The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.