Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar.
- James Bonar
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![In the Prerogative,24 the most important of his answers to critics, he is eloquent in the praise of London and cities in general. He has given some thought to the action and interaction of town and country: “One of the blessings that God promised to Abraham was that his seed should be multiplied as the stars of heaven. That the commonwealth of Rome by multiplying her seed came to bound her territory with the Ocean and her fame with the stars of heaven; that such a populousness is that without which there can be no great common¬ wealth, both reason and good authors are clear; but whether it ought to begin in the country or in the city is a scruple I have not known them make. That of Israel began in the country, that of Rome in the city. Except there be obstruction or impedi¬ ment by the law, as in Turkey where the country, and in England where the city, is forbid to increase; wherever there is a populous country, as, for example, France, it makes a populous city as Paris; and wherever there is a populous city, as Rome, after the ruin of Alba, and Amsterdam, after the ruin, as to trade, of Antwerp, it makes a populous territory, as was that of the rustic [rural] tribes [of Rome], and is that of Holland.55 “But the ways how a populous city comes to make a populous country and how a populous country comes to make a populous city are contrary, the one happening through suckling as that of the city, and the other through weaning as that of the country.55](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
