ABSTRACT
Little is known of the author of this chapter, Philip Viberi, other than he was a British manager of a US-based company called Gaspi. In line with the ethos of Simmonds’s journal, Viberi espouses a rejection of Malthusianism and offers, instead, a cornucopian belief in the infinite supply of resources and technological ingenuity. Few subjects have of late years occupied more of public attention than the employment of overgrown and daily-increasing population. The numerous lines of railroad give employment to thousands. During the period of the Commonwealth, a law was passed forbidding emigration to the United States. The hosiery of the first, the ironmongery of the second, and the prints of the latter, are rapidly superseding the products of Nottingham, Birmingham, and Manchester, in the South American ports.
