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

     II. Survey of the Creation from Natural History

     III. General Views as to the Alleged Increase of Mankind

     IV. General View of the Arguments against the Increase of Mankind

     V. Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times

     VI. Illustrations from the History of China

     VII. India

     VIII. South America

     IX. Paraguay

     X. Sparta

     XI. Rome

     XII. Miscellaneous Observations

     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

      II. Animadversions on Mr. Malthus's Authorities

      III. Principles respecting the Increase or Decrease of the Numbers of Mankind

      IV. Accounts which are given of the Population of Sweden

      V. Inferences suggested by the Accounts of Sweden

      VI. Observations on the Swedish Tables Continued

      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

      IX. Principles respecting the Increase or Decrease of the Numbers of Mankind Resumed

      X. Of the Population of England and Wales

      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

      II. Of Deaths and the Rate of Human Mortality

      III. Attempt towards a Rational Theory of the Checks on Population

      IV. Attempt towards a Rational Theory of the Checks on Population continued

      V. Mr. Malthus's Eleven Heads of the Causes that keep down Population Considered

      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

      II. Of the Topography and Political Condition of the United States

      III. History of Emigration from Europe to North America in the Seventeenth Century

      IV. History of Emigration to North America from the Year 1700 to the Present Time

      V. Retrospect of the History of Population in the United States

      VI. Of the Amount of Births in the United States

      VII. Of the Period at which Marriages are Formed

      VIII. Diseases in the Territory of the United States

      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

      II. Of the Number of Human Beings, which the Globe is capable of maintaining on our present Systems of Husbandry and Cultivation

      III. Calculation of the Productive Powers of the Soil of England and Wales

      IV. Causes of the Scarcity of the Means of Human Subsistence

      V. Causes of the Scarcity of the Means of Human Subsistence Continued

      VI. Of the Improvements of which the Productiveness of the Globe for the Purposes of Human Subsistence is Capable

      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

      II. Of the Positions respecting the Nature of Man upon which the Essay on Population is Constructed

      III. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Principles of Morality

      IV. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Condition of the Poor

      V. Of the Doctrines of the Essay on Population as they Affect the Condition of the Rich

      VI. Of Marriage, and the Persons who may Justifiably enter into that State

      VII. A Few Contradictions in the Essay on Population Stated

      VIII. Of Wages

      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.