ABSTRACT
This chapter dedicates to the study of evidence of Malthus in occurrences in the natural world brings Malthus to the study of Indian famines. In particular, it interests in Malthus’s law of population. Divine Providence is an expression implying infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, and it is doubtless most difficult to connect the miseries of our existence with any such transcendent cause. Science has, however, discovered an order and laws of Nature under which man lives, and is indeed powerless to reverse, but to which he can, by means of his intelligence, so accommodate his conduct as to render merely natural miseries almost nugatory, and thereby physics become subordinated to ethics. The canon of scientific and moral culture of life requires that reckless or irrational multiplication should be restrained, and that man should apply his intelligence towards controlling the purely physical and physiological conditions of his reproduction.
