Population (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from PopulationA belief in the material progress of mankind is not old. During the greater part of history such a belief was neither compatible with experience nor encouraged by religion. It'is doubtful whether, taking one century with another, there was much variation in the lot of the unskilled labourer at the centres of civilisation in the two thousand years from the Greece of Solon to the England of Charles II or the France of Louis XIV. Paganism placed the Golden Age behind us Christianity raised Heaven above us, and anyone, before the middle of the eighteenth century, who had expected a progressive improvement in material welfare here, as a result of the division of labour, the discoveries of science and the boundless fecundity of the species, would have been thought very eccentric.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.