CIVILIZATION

OR

A Brief Analysis

OF THE

NATURAL LAWS THAT REGULATE THE NUMBERS AND
CONDITION OF MANKIND.

BY THE HON. A. H. MORETON, M.P.

"And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe;
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale."

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CHAP. III.--On Combinations to raise or lower Wages 57

CHAP. IV. On the Limits of the Fund for the Employ-

CHAP. V. --On the Origin of the Fund for the Employ-

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ment of Labour

CHAP. VI.-On the Effect of Civilization upon the

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91

Health, Longevity, and Increase of Mankind 114

CHAP. VII.-How the Amount of Population is adapted

to the Variations in the Fund for their Sup-

port

147

CHAP. VIII. Case in which Population has no Tendency

to increase

158

CHAP. IX.—On the Causes that may obstruct the Growth

of the Manufacturing and Higher Classes -

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170

CHAP. X.-Conclusion

202

INTRODUCTION.

THERE is a very broad line of demarcation between mankind and the rest of the animal kingdom in the substitution of reason for instinct. Man requires a long and careful education to enable him even to exist; while education does nothing for the inferior animals, which are endowed by Nature with all the faculties required for their subsistence. As soon as brute animals have acquired sufficient strength, they begin to seek their food in the same manner as the rest of their species. The experience of a hundred generations adds not to their knowledge. How beautiful and how wonderful is the architecture and the economy of the bee!-yet the first hives they ever constructed were as artfully formed:

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