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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818. Excerpt: ... INDEX. A. Abundanck of subsistence not always favourable to early marriage, 96, 124, 274. Results of, in 1815, decisively against Mr. Malthus's theory, i99, 275. Sometimes in-. "jurious to the various classes, 275, 358. Acres, two, fully cultivated, required on the average to feed a human individual, 106. Alexander, Emperor of Russia, what he has done for Europe, and what he should do for Asia, 446. His conduct to-wards Poland criticised, 447. An address to him, 450. Algiers, its government should be new-modelled, 449. America, rapid increase of population in, since its disco-very, 157.--------, South, keeping it as a colony injurious to Spain, 185., United States of, the rate of the increase of popu- lation in, not a general natural rate, 56. Their rate of doubling their population decisive against the subsistence theory, 61. The cultivation of their waste lands an enterprise of great difficulty, 63. Other states populate less rapidly, because employed generally in less healthy pursuits, 64. Those districts of, populate fastest that live most temperately, 130. An exporting country with respect to subsistence, 135. Their separation from Bri-tain favourable to the latter, 185. Amours, illicit, miseries of, 440. Animals, observations on the assumption of Mr. Malthus, that they increase naturally faster than their food, 26. Their food suited to them, 27. Of the sea, and of the land, 28. Do not appear to over-increase even in un-peopled districts, 29. Antipopulation notions, certain, held generally by the multi-tude, 2. Antipopulationists, an opinion of a statistician respecting them, 332. K K B. Bachelor, compared with the married man, 293, 298. The greater number of suicides said to be bachelors, 295. Bank of England, plan respecting the balances of public ...
