Suppressed work! On the possibility of limiting populousness : to which is added, the theory of painless extinction / by Marcus.

  • Marcus, active 19th century
Date:
1839
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Credit: Suppressed work! On the possibility of limiting populousness : to which is added, the theory of painless extinction / by Marcus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ESSAY . ON IPOFULOVSNESS. PRINTED FOR!PRIVATE CIRCULATION* a The Reader is requested to consider the following Piece as being the Fourth j-Chapter of the foregoing Tract. Why it was displaced may be explained Lhereafter.]J Sr SECTION I. ; (i Accept this misery !” So says to man the first author upon Population : “ accept this capitulation with your destiny.” You see that is a necessity in a double sense. Not only is it the con¬ sequence of an unconquerable luxuriance in our vegetative growth ; an inevitable effect of an inevitable cause ; but the very quantity and degree of misery as actually existing is necessary because wanted. Since only it can set bounds to itself. How are men ever to be disciplined into labour and forethought, if they be neither chastened themselves nor terrified by the spec¬ tacle of want in others ? Moreover, it is as when we are threat¬ ened by a wasting- invader: we may find, that our only security lies informing a waste, at any expence between him and our¬ selves. Some must suffer lor all. Derange not this order of things ;—you will only make the suffering universal, and it will then not except even those whose lot you have unwisely sought to mend. It is replied-—agreed in the principle ; we wish to capitulate ; we wish to earn peace and secure possession by a partial endu¬ rance. Cut is there no better and worse in this as in other things? We hear the voice of indolence, “ Seek not to mend,” confirmed in this one instance by this great argument, ‘‘Evil is the cure for evil.” But it is the voice of an enemy ; permit us to distrust and to examine. If it be so true, that evil is the great cure and counteraction