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Godwin, William. Of Population. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820.

CONTENTS.


PREFACE

BOOK 1.

OF THE POPULATION OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AND SOUTH AMERICA IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES.

CHAPTER I. Introduction

CHAPTER II. Survey of the Creation from Natural History

CHAPTER III. General Views as to the Alleged Increase of Mankind

CHAPTER IV. General View of the Arguments against the Increase of Mankind

CHAPTER V. Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times

CHAPTER VI. Illustrations from the History of China

CHAPTER VII. India

CHAPTER VIII. South America

CHAPTER IX. Paraguay

CHAPTER X. Sparta

CHAPTER XI. Rome

CHAPTER XII. Miscellaneous Observations

CHAPTER XIII. Views of Man and Society which result from the Preceding Facts

BOOK II.

OF THE POWER OF INCREASE IN THE NUMBERS OF MANKIND, AND THE LIMITATIONS OF THAT POWER.

CHAPTER I. Proofs and Authorities for the Doctrine the Essay on Population

CHAPTER II. Animadversions on Mr. Malthus's Authorities

CHAPTER III. Principles respecting the Increase or Decrease of the Numbers of Mankind

CHAPTER IV. Accounts which are given of the Population of Sweden

CHAPTER V. Inferences suggested by the Accounts of Sweden

CHAPTER VI. Observations on the Swedish Tables Continued

CHAPTER VII. Recapitulation of the Evidence of the Swedish Tables

APPENDIX TO CHAPTERS IV, V, AND VI.

CHAPTER VIII. Population of Other Countries in Europe Considered

CHAPTER IX. Principles respecting the Increase or Decrease of the Numbers of Mankind Resumed

CHAPTER X. Of the Population of England and Wales

CHAPTER XI. Proofs of the Geometrical Ratio from the Phenomenon of a Pestilence

DISSERTATION ON THE RATIOS OF INCREASE IN POPULATION, AND IN THE MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. By MR. DAVID BOOTH

TABLES OF THE AMERICAN CENSUS

BOOK III.

OF THE CAUSES BY WHICH THE AMOUNT OF THE NUMBERS OF MANKIND IS REDUCED OR RESTRAINED.

CHAPTER I. Futility of Mr. Malthus's Doctrine respecting the Checks on Population

CHAPTER II. Of Deaths and the Rate of Human Mortality

CHAPTER III. Attempt towards a Rational Theory of the Checks on Population

CHAPTER IV. Attempt towards a Rational Theory of the Checks on Population continued

CHAPTER V. Mr. Malthus's Eleven Heads of the Causes that keep down Population Considered

CHAPTER VI. Observations on the Countries in the Neighbourhood of the River Missouri

BOOK IV.

OF THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.

CHAPTER I. Introduction

CHAPTER II. Of the Topography and Political Condition of the United States

CHAPTER III. History of Emigration from Europe to North America in the Seventeenth Century

CHAPTER IV. History of Emigration to North America from the Year 1700 to the Present Time

CHAPTER V. Retrospect of the History of Population in the United States

CHAPTER VI. Of the Amount of Births in the United States

CHAPTER VII. Of the Period at which Marriages are Formed

CHAPTER VIII. Diseases in the Territory of the United States

CHAPTER IX. Reports of the Population of the United States Analysed and Examined

BOOK V.

OF THE MEANS WHICH THE EARTH AFFORDS FOR THE SUBSISTENCE OF MAN.

CHAPTER I. Of the Present State of the Globe, as it relates to Human Subsistence

CHAPTER II. Of the Number of Human Beings, which the Globe is capable of maintaining on our present Systems of Husbandry and Cultivation

CHAPTER III. Calculation of the Productive Powers of the Soil of England and Wales

CHAPTER IV. Causes of the Scarcity of the Means of Human Subsistence

CHAPTER V. Causes of the Scarcity of the Means of Human Subsistence Continued

CHAPTER VI. Of the Improvements of which the Productiveness of the Globe for the Purposes of Human Subsistence is Capable

CHAPTER VII. Of the Principles of a Sound Policy on the Subject of Population

BOOK VI.

OF THE MORAL AND POLITICAL MAXIMS INCULCATED IN THE ESSAY ON POPULATION.

CHAPTER I. Character and Spirit of the Essay on Population Delineated

CHAPTER II. Of the Positions respecting the Nature of Man upon which the Essay on Population is Constructed

CHAPTER III. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Principles of Morality

CHAPTER IV. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Condition of the Poor

CHAPTER V. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Condition of the Rich

CHAPTER VI. Of Marriage, and the Persons who may Justifiably enter into that State

CHAPTER VII. A Few Contradictions in the Essay on Population Stated

CHAPTER VIII. Of Wages

CHAPTER IX. Conclusion



"Russia being mentioned as likely to become a great empire by the rapid increase of population:--JOHNSON. Why sir, I see no prospect of their propagating more. They can have no more children than they can get. I know of no way to make them breed more than they do. BOSWELL. But have not nations been more populous at one period than another? JOHNSON. Yes, sir; but that has been owing to the people being less thinned at one time than another, whether by emigrations, war, or pestilence, not to their being more or less prolific. Births at all times bear the same proportion to the same number of people."

BOSWELL, LIFE OF JOHNSON : anno 1769.



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