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    « Turn to M . Vilkiveuve ' s calculation . *< Qua twentieth of the population ( i . e . 1 , 000 , 000 in 32 , 000 , 000 ); he reckons us ' poor in France . « ' One sixth of the population ( i . e ., 3 , 900 , 000 in 23 , 400 , 000 ) , ** poor , in England . ' I 1 " Has this iKiui > erisai been diminishing ! —vol . i . p . 263 .

    The answer to this question includes a numfcer of calculations , of which we can only give the result . It appears , from them , that in the last thirty years the population of England has increased about one-third ; and that pauperism has increased in a ratio of three to one faster than population , whilst the riches of the country have been increasing in an equal

    degree . " The greater the amount of the population in every country , which depends wholly for existence upon the labour it does for others , the greater struggle will there be among that population to sustain an uncertain existence ; and the greater the effort the country will make in every industry by which capital is to be increased , and labour employed . ** A people in this situation will become more energetic—more enterprising—more productive—more restless—more laborious—yet , dar 4 < by the side of the picture which exhibits the riches and activity , will come forth the table that displays the crimes and the

    misery of the population ; and the legislator will find that he has not merely to consider how a nation may be made most wealthy , but how the pursuit of wealth may he made most accordant with morality , and its distribution most compatible with enjoyment . "vol . i . p . 2 ( 52 .

    Mr . Maculloch ' s opinion of the effects of the law of succession , as at present existing in France , is quoted by Mr . Bulwer as follows : —

    * ' The effect of the present law fills , and will fill , the country with a wntched population , destitute of the desire of rising in the worlds—vol . i . p . 224 .

    Mr . Young * , an English writer of the year 1789 , cited as an authority by Mr . Macullocii , says : —

    * ' France is threatened to l > e overpowered , not only with n redundant , but with n pot at oe feed in s population , " ( p . 480 ) ; by neraes'ering in this system ( the division of property ) it will soon exceed the popu » lousness of Chinu , where the putvid carcases of do £ t > , cats , rut * ,. - ' and every specks of vermin and tilth , are sought after with avidity * to sustain the wretches born only to be bturvtd . " —vol . i . \ u 235 .

    Mr . Buhver , in opposition to these opinions , quotes various writers on the present state of France ; hut the most ' ftatisfcctory answer is that to be obtained from Htutftftteal tables . From these it appears , t | iat under the presbnt lair the aVipual increase of population in France has been " loss than Jn the

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    Buhvers France . 1-65

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/37/