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Adam Smith agriculture annual appear arising average calculated capital Captain Cook causes cheap soups check to population China circumstances classes of society common consequently considerable considered corn-laws cultivation deaths degree difficulty diminished distress doubt earth effect emigration employed England equal eral Europe evident evil exertions foreign France George Staunton Godwin greater number habits happiness human improvement increase of population industry infanticide inhabitants labouring classes land laws of nature live lower classes Malthus mankind manufactures marriages marry means of subsistence millions misery mortality Muret nations necessarily necessary object observed occasioned parish particularly perhaps period persons poor poor-laws popu poverty present prevail preventive check price of labour principle of population probably produce progress proportion of births quantity raw produce reason registers Russia savage nations scarcity seems sufficient supply suppose tend tion Vaud vice wages of labour wealth whole workhouses