A Statistical and Historical Inquiry Into the Progress and Magnitude of the Population of Ireland - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1805. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Of the Circumstances which have tended tr frustrate, in a considerable Degree, the, agency of the Causes of a rapid Multiplication of People in Ireland . ysii t IfiE principal causes then of a rapid multiplication of the human species--plenty of food, frequency of marriage, and an highly salubrious climate, having operated throughout the last century in Ireland, a country utterly exempt, during that long period of time, from the depopulating effects of every species of physical calamity, and in a very great degree from those of war, there can be little doubt that had these eminently effective causes been seconded by a mild and-equitable government, and" an increasing demand for labour, had they not been, in a signal manner, frustrated by a perpetual efflux of people, that country, "maintaining asit did," to use the words of Archdeacon Paley, ' a considerable degree of population, under great defects of police, industry and comtaerce," would, long.since, have been as populous as either Holland or China: for with regard to that most essential article, food, it had a decided advantage over both; and with regard to climate also, over the latter. "Quelquefois," says M. Montesquieu, "le climat est plus favorable que le terrein; le peuple s'y multiplie, et les famines les detruisent: c'est le cas oik se trouve la Chine."-f-In Ireland, abundance of food appears to have been a most potent auxiliary of a climate transcendently favourable to generation and longevity. But while, on the one hand, multitudes were annually brought into existence by the agency of the causes which we have just been considering, thousands were, Oh the other hand, annually severed from the population of Ireland by the operation of causes of a most depopulating nature. During about three-fourths o...
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