Excerpt from The Population Question According to T. R. Malthus and J. S. Mill: Giving the Malthusian Theory of Over-Population Malthus combated the position of those writers in whose eyes the perfectibility of men and of political institutions was without limits, and reduced to a very low figure the influence of bad governments he defended the rights of property, and combated the different socialistic theories which were at that day in the air: he Showed, also, that human societies had at all times had only two obstacles to their increase, namely, Vice and Misery: and he pointed to the too rapid increase of population in proportion to subsistence, as being the prin cipal cause of these obstacles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.