ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the question of population in countries like England, Scotland, and, Ireland, Thomas Robert Malthus tries to answer at least three distinct questions: What were the checks actually at work in eighteenth century? Had the numbers of the people increased, or not, in the eighteenth century? What conclusions on either point may be drawn from the English census? It is remarked there that in England the middle and upper classes increase at a slow rate, because they are always anxious to keep their station, and afraid of the expense of marriage, it must first, as with England, clearly understand different conditions. The conditions of society and industry were quite different in the three countries; and to judge of the actual or probable growth of population in Scotland or Ireland, it must first, as with England. The chapter examines that the population of Ireland was increasing even then faster than that of England.
