ABSTRACT
This chapter asserts that in any given state of civilization a greater number of people can collectively be better provided for than a smaller. It explores that the injustice of society, not the niggardliness of nature, is the cause of the want and misery which the current theory attributes to overpopulation. The chapter also asserts that the new mouths which an increasing population calls into existence require no more food than the old ones, while the hands they being with them can in the natural order of things produce more. It also explores that, other things being equal, the greater the population, the greater the comfort which an equitable distribution of wealth would give to each individual. The proportion of births is notoriously greater in new settlements, where the struggle with nature leaves little opportunity for intellectual life, and among the poverty-bound classes of older countries.
