Observations on the Progress of Population, and the Probabilities of the Duration of Human Life, in the United States of America: Read Before the ... Promoting Useful Knowledge (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
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Excerpt from Observations on the Progress of Population, and the Probabilities of the Duration of Human Life, in the United States of America: Read Before the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge
There is not, perhaps, any political axiom better ef'ta blifhed, than this, - That a high degree of* population contributes greatly to the riches and firength of a Rate. In fact, the progreflive increafe of numbers, in the peo ple of any civilized country, is reciprocally the caufe and effect of its real wealth: and, therefore, there cannot be a furer criterion by which we may judge, whether a na tion be, in reality, on the rife or on the decline, than by ob ferving, whether the number of its inhabitants increafe or diminiih.
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