BOOK II. POPULATION AND SUBSISTENCE.

CHAPTER I.—THE MALTHUSIAN THEORY, ITS GENESIS AND SUPPORT.

CHAPTER II.—INFERENCES FROM FACTS.

CHAPTER III.—INFERENCES FROM ANALOGY.

CHAPTER IV.—DISPROOF OF THE MALTHUSIAN THEORY.

Are God and Nature then at strife,

That Nature lends such evil dreams?

So careful of the type she seems,

So careless of the single life.

—Tennyson.