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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![“For proof of the former—the more mouths there be in a city the more meat of necessity must be vented [vended or sold] by the country, and so there will be more corn, more cattle, and better markets, which, breeding more labourers, more husbandmen, and richer farmers, bring the country so far from a commonwealth of cottagers that, where the blessings of God through the fruitfulness of late years with us rendered the husbandman unable to dispute precedence with the beggar’s bush,25 his trade, thus uninterrupted in that his markets are certain, goes on with increase of children, of servants, of corn, and of cattle, for there is no reason why the fields adjoining the Emporium [London], being but a hard soil, should annually produce two crops but the populousness of the city.55 “Their country then, growing more populous and better stocked with cattle, which also increases manure for the land, must proportionably increase in fruitfulness. Hence it is that the Romans26 also were good at such works. In Holland there is scarce a puddle undrained, nor a bank of sand cast up by the sea that is not covered with earth and made fruitful by the people, these being so strangely with the growth of Amsterdam increased, as comes perhaps to two parts in three; nor, the Agrarian taking place in Oceana, would it be longer disputed whether we might not destroy fishes to plant men. Thus a populous city makes a country milch,27 or populous by sucking; and, whereas some may](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
