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An Essay on the Principle of Population

CHAPTER 10
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The love of variety is a vicious, corrupt, and unnatural taste and could not prevail in any great degree in a simple and virtuous state of society.

Each man would probably select himself a partner, to whom he would adhere as long as that adherence continued to be the choice of both parties.

It would be of little consequence, according to Mr Godwin, how many children a woman had or to whom they belonged.

Provisions and assistance would spontaneously flow from the quarter in which they abounded, to the quarter that was deficient.

(See Bk VIII, ch.


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