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An Essay on the Principle of Population

CHAPTER 2
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Let us now bring the effects of these two ratios together.
The population of the Island is computed to be about seven millions, and we will suppose the present produce equal to the support of such a number.

In the first twenty-five years the population would be fourteen millions, and the food being also doubled, the means of subsistence would be equal to this increase.

In the next twenty-five years the population would be twenty-eight millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of twenty-one millions.

In the next period, the population would be fifty-six millions, and the means of subsistence just sufficient for half that number.

And at the conclusion of the first century the population would be one hundred and twelve millions and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirty-five millions, which would leave a population of seventy-seven millions totally unprovided for.
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.


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