The Friend Of The Present

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

Population, When Unchecked, Goes On Doubling Itself Every 25 Years Or Increases In A Geometrical Ratio.

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

In Prosperous Times The Mercantile Classes Often Realize Fortunes, Which Go Far Towards Securing Them Against The Future; But Unfortunately The Working Classes, Though They Share In The General Prosperity, Do Not Share In It So Largely As In The General Adversity.

The Germs Of Existence Contained In This Spot Of Earth, With Ample Food, And Ample Room To Expand In, Would Fill Millions Of Worlds In The Course Of A Few Thousand Years.