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* The True Law of Population: I have read this work, a an Article by Mr Hickson in the Westminster & Foreign Quarterly Review Oct 1849, Mr "Godwin on Population" & various other Essays written against Malthus' great work, with all the attention of which I am capable, but I cannot say that they have had any weight with me, in opposition to the few facts, given in this chapter, & which could have been largely added to. I am bound to add that so eminent an authority as Dr. Carpenter (Principles of Comparative Physiology 1854 p 122) seems to admit Mr Doubleday's doctrine; though I am doubtful whether he extends so again that sh shrewd observer Hugh Miller (Schools & Schoolmasters p. 266) seems of same opinion, & remarks, that "when hardship presses on the life of the individual, so as to threaten its extinction, it is rendered more fruitful".—

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