Godwin, William. Of Population. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820.
CONTENTS.
PREFACE
BOOK 1.
OF THE POPULATION OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AND SOUTH AMERICA IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES.
CHAPTER I. Introduction
CHAPTER II. Survey of the Creation from Natural History
CHAPTER III. General Views as to the Alleged Increase of Mankind
CHAPTER IV. General View of the Arguments against the Increase of Mankind
CHAPTER V. Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times
CHAPTER VI. Illustrations from the History of China
CHAPTER VII. India
CHAPTER VIII. South America
CHAPTER IX. Paraguay
CHAPTER X. Sparta
CHAPTER XI. Rome
CHAPTER XII. Miscellaneous Observations
CHAPTER XIII. Views of Man and Society which result from the Preceding Facts
BOOK II.
OF THE POWER OF INCREASE IN THE NUMBERS OF MANKIND, AND THE LIMITATIONS OF THAT POWER.
CHAPTER I. Proofs and Authorities for the Doctrine the Essay on Population
CHAPTER II. Animadversions on Mr. Malthus's Authorities
CHAPTER III. Principles respecting the Increase or Decrease of the Numbers of Mankind
CHAPTER IV. Accounts which are given of the Population of Sweden
CHAPTER V. Inferences suggested by the Accounts of Sweden
CHAPTER VI. Observations on the Swedish Tables Continued
CHAPTER VII. Recapitulation of the Evidence of the Swedish Tables
APPENDIX TO CHAPTERS IV, V, AND VI.
CHAPTER VIII. Population of Other Countries in Europe Considered
CHAPTER IX. Principles respecting the Increase or Decrease of the Numbers of Mankind Resumed
CHAPTER X. Of the Population of England and Wales
CHAPTER XI. Proofs of the Geometrical Ratio from the Phenomenon of a Pestilence
DISSERTATION ON THE RATIOS OF INCREASE IN POPULATION, AND IN THE MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. By MR. DAVID BOOTH
TABLES OF THE AMERICAN CENSUS
BOOK III.
OF THE CAUSES BY WHICH THE AMOUNT OF THE NUMBERS OF MANKIND IS REDUCED OR RESTRAINED.
CHAPTER I. Futility of Mr. Malthus's Doctrine respecting the Checks on Population
CHAPTER II. Of Deaths and the Rate of Human Mortality
CHAPTER III. Attempt towards a Rational Theory of the Checks on Population
CHAPTER IV. Attempt towards a Rational Theory of the Checks on Population continued
CHAPTER V. Mr. Malthus's Eleven Heads of the Causes that keep down Population Considered
CHAPTER VI. Observations on the Countries in the Neighbourhood of the River Missouri
BOOK IV.
OF THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.
CHAPTER I. Introduction
CHAPTER II. Of the Topography and Political Condition of the United States
CHAPTER III. History of Emigration from Europe to North America in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER IV. History of Emigration to North America from the Year 1700 to the Present Time
CHAPTER V. Retrospect of the History of Population in the United States
CHAPTER VI. Of the Amount of Births in the United States
CHAPTER VII. Of the Period at which Marriages are Formed
CHAPTER VIII. Diseases in the Territory of the United States
CHAPTER IX. Reports of the Population of the United States Analysed and Examined
BOOK V.
OF THE MEANS WHICH THE EARTH AFFORDS FOR THE SUBSISTENCE OF MAN.
CHAPTER I. Of the Present State of the Globe, as it relates to Human Subsistence
CHAPTER II. Of the Number of Human Beings, which the Globe is capable of maintaining on our present Systems of Husbandry and Cultivation
CHAPTER III. Calculation of the Productive Powers of the Soil of England and Wales
CHAPTER IV. Causes of the Scarcity of the Means of Human Subsistence
CHAPTER V. Causes of the Scarcity of the Means of Human Subsistence Continued
CHAPTER VI. Of the Improvements of which the Productiveness of the Globe for the Purposes of Human Subsistence is Capable
CHAPTER VII. Of the Principles of a Sound Policy on the Subject of Population
BOOK VI.
OF THE MORAL AND POLITICAL MAXIMS INCULCATED IN THE ESSAY ON POPULATION.
CHAPTER I. Character and Spirit of the Essay on Population Delineated
CHAPTER II. Of the Positions respecting the Nature of Man upon which the Essay on Population is Constructed
CHAPTER III. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Principles of Morality
CHAPTER IV. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Condition of the Poor
CHAPTER V. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Condition of the Rich
CHAPTER VI. Of Marriage, and the Persons who may Justifiably enter into that State
CHAPTER VII. A Few Contradictions in the Essay on Population Stated
CHAPTER VIII. Of Wages
CHAPTER IX. Conclusion
"Russia being mentioned as likely to become a great empire by the rapid increase of population:--JOHNSON. Why sir, I see no prospect of their propagating more. They can have no more children than they can get. I know of no way to make them breed more than they do. BOSWELL. But have not nations been more populous at one period than another? JOHNSON. Yes, sir; but that has been owing to the people being less thinned at one time than another, whether by emigrations, war, or pestilence, not to their being more or less prolific. Births at all times bear the same proportion to the same number of people."
BOSWELL, LIFE OF JOHNSON : anno 1769.
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