The Most Baleful Mischiefs May

The Great And Unlooked For Discoveries That Have Taken Place Of Late Years Have All Concurred To Lead Many Men Into The Opinion That We Were Touching On A Period Big With The Most Important Changes.

The Power Of Population Is Indefinitely Greater Than The Power In The Earth To Produce Subsistence For Man.

The Ordeal Of Virtue Is To Resist All Temptation To Evil.

It Is Not The Most Pleasant Employment To Spend Eight Hours A Day In A Counting House.

The Natural Inequality Of The Two Powers Of Population And Of Production In The Earth, And That Great Law Of Our Nature Which Must Constantly Keep Their Efforts Equal, Form The Great Difficulty That To Me Appears Insurmountable In The Way To The Perfectibility Of Society.