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    country while its institutions are corrupt . To return to the powerful language of Hafciittjp " Mr Malfchu * wishes to confound the necessary limits pf tibe p * 94 » ce of the earth with the arbitrary and artificial distribution of t ^^ , p # > di * according to tjhe institutions of society ,, or the caprice of individuals ; th ^ laws of God an 4 nature , with the laws of maa "~ JPoIitical Essays , p . 426 .

    , Thirty years since , the evident tendency of Norway to an increasing population alarmed the " soundest thinker * " on her behalf . Already , in imagination , they beheld the pale glare of Famine reflected in the hollows of the wretched faces of the sufferers ; the earth refusing to permit the rising * corn and grass

    to advance in a ratio with the rising heads of humanity \ the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air no longer having wherewith to feed themselves and educate and provide for their young ; and the capricious sea showing a tendency to decline giving up her round-eyed progeny * Even the trade in lobsterfe

    seemed likely to terminate in a more brusque than ; aamane mariner . But , fortunately for Norway , it so happened that , shortly after exciting all this benevolent concern , he * political institutions were amended . She freed herself by an honourable struggle from the incubus of a privileged clasa of nobles , and a house of hereditary legislators ;—fortunately for her , she was without a privileged order of priests ;—she obtained a free and

    equal system of representation , and the advantage o £ responsible functionaries in every branch of her executive f and her increasing population finds the means of subsistence increase in proportion to their numbers . The " preventive- 6 hq ( &k&" of vice and misery decrease as the population increased , and the natural motives , likely to influence a people arrjyed . f ^ fcytheir standard of civilization , supply the only che v ^^ h are necessary * These checks are found in the iqstiriQtive (^ We

    « n 4 v reasonable prospect of accumulating t ^ pgiJUle prjoperty , ^ hich object would be defeated by too numerous aa ofifeprkig . Growiog out of , and working into the developments this principle , we find that early and improvident marriage * are continually superseded by the establishment , according to the

    Lutheran Church , of two distinct ceremonies of martiage ; the first , or betrothment , preceding the actual union by a period varying from one to several years . This circumstance , alf ^ Wjrig of course for numerous exceptions resulting frora yafip vi ? temperaments , claims a deduction of time from the action of { . be populating principle ; Mr (» aing thinks , all things coriet < rered , that it redubes the Amount of increase from between tbur to

    five per cent , e&ch year . Nor perhaps is this all ; for the circumstance of such a delay has a naturaHendency \ u theg ^ nera ^ lity q { individuals to induce steadiness of conduct and prudenr

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    Journal ofc Reeidenca in Nonoajf * 646

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 665, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/13/