ABSTRACT
The ultimate effect of an increase of population in such a community, if continued for any length of time, would however probably be to effect a transition to an easier and more civilized mode of living. The increase of population on an unoccupied territory only increases the quantity of rude labor and of its products, but leaves the productiveness of labor and the comparative abundance of its products as before. In the new settlements that are formed, labor is applied with skill, and is proportionally productive: while population, encouraged by the high state of civilisation, proceeds with rapidity. If well grounded, people are decisive of the whole question, in regard to the influence of the increase of population upon the supply of the means of subsistence, and prove conclusively that the theory of Mr. Malthus is not only erroneous, but directly the reverse of the truth.
