Note 91 — XVI. POPULATION.
Patrick James Stirling translation
“There are few states in which there is not a constant effort in the population to increase beyond the means of subsistence. This constant effort as constantly tends to subject the lower classes of society to distress, and to prevent any great permanent melioration of their condition. . . . The constant effort towards population . . . increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased,” etc.—Malthus on Population, vol. i. pp. 17, 18, 6th edition.