ABSTRACT
There are some who seem disposed to attribute the increase of population almost entirely to the influence of a free and good government. In the savage or hunter's state, which is the most pure from mixture, population appears in general to be nearly stationary. In the pastoral state, which is also found sometimes very pure, the increase of population is quickened, but it is still very slow. In the agricultural state, which is occasionally, in a thin rate of numbers to territory, found pretty pure, it becomes very rapid. The increase of population gives rise not only to the fond affections between the sexes, which produce so much happiness, but to many of the social connexions, from which so great a share of human enjoyment is derived. The increase of population operates towards correcting the bad effects of the progress of wealth and luxury. The increase of population is, in truth, the great predisposing cause of wealth.
