Show A DANGEROUS TS DOCTRINE A certain class clam of infidels and arec thinkers who claim that matter is its own origin and end as well aa as the basis or oven even substance ofin of mind ind take great stock in the go 80 called malthusian doctrine which asserts that all the evils on earth result from an unchecked over lation on the globe and tho the insufficiency of nature to provide for this whence the physical sufferings rings and social anomalies the conclusion suggesting itself to some of tho the class of people referred to consists in that not only is man released from all moral responsibilities for existing injustice immorality oppress mon sion vice and crime but that the only remedy ag against ainest the further continuance or spread of the evils evus is is to be found in some means of voluntary restriction of tho the increase of the human race this atrocious doctrine which hoi has assumed a quasi for having been allowed to perpetuate perpetu ato itself for two centuries without being totally extinguished is not only contrary to all tho the teachings of religion ing of faith and instincts of hu ni anity but is really dangerous to the safety of society and subversive give of every principle on which communities and commonwealths are established it is very significant that the tile absurdity not to say iniquity of this malthusian theory has not only been recognized but loudly and fearlessly acknowledged by so rad ical a thinker as mr henry george tha the irish american land agitator in a arc cent lecture in chickering hallner Hall new york this gentleman who by the way is as dorcille for cille a speaker as he is an independent thinker demolished the moloch like idol erected by malthus a mediocre man nian of the century and unthinkingly adopted and stud even worshiped by superficial minds winds in the last and present centuries A As wo we learn from synopses of his lecture published in our new york a exchanges mr george character iced the mathematical statement of the relative increase of population and subsistence as absurd and in incapable of proof the malthusian Malt busian theory he regarded as a purely unwarrantable wArran tabla deduction drawn from purely gratuitous assumptions na if population has always outgrown subsistence he would ask how it was that the earth was still so thinly populated that it has in fact been estimated that that part of the habitable globe which can really be said to bo be occupied by mankind does not amount to the thousandth one part of its superficial area though it may have iron keen far from mr georges intention to vindicate th the a way ways of god to man 11 his hi refutation of tho the ee mo ulless assumption of a nature devouring and destroying its own owa oTa pring aa as saturn does in mythology has a tendency to firmer establish tha the with in a providential design in in creation the earth has not been nor will be peopled by more human beings than can obtain their sub lance stance from its alementa ele menta bi theses who tha the latent tracts the giddy height explore are able to understand that it is impossible ta assert that this globe is is more populous now than it was five hundred or even thousands of years age The European race may be considered on the whole as increasing but on the other hand we have other parts of ok the world whose population is decreasing at as rapid a rate mr george denied that there waa was any country in the world which J could be pointed out as showing the pressure of population upon substance he lie even went as far and we think justly so u to deny that overpopulation over population wait the causo of the present woes boes afflicting ireland ad ding rather facetiously that the only overpopulation over population ho he saw in i n ireland consisted isted of policemen in eve everywhere else in the world where vice misery and want exist they can be traced to bad laws faulty institutions and social ignorance mans inhumanity to man and not a supposititious hostility of all aud all nourishing nature against the tile human hum race the tile lecturer aftel diser disproving i Malthus statement that population increases cs in an nn arithmetical progression two and two tire awl and two etc while subsistence iner increases eases in geometrical progression tion two by two by two etc did not fait fail to point out the support this pernicious pres urup sump tion has received by a misconstrued application of the doctrine of the survival of the fittest a cold heart beart ed cruel doctrine which in its logical consequences would lead biami families to expose feeble born infants to death like the ancien ancient t spartans spartano Spar tans di didor to dis dispatch pitch tho the debilitated aged like some savage tribes do similarly the general adoption of the malthusian theory would lead to a legalization of artificial f restriction of the increase of population in disobedience alike of gods god first commandment and natures tur first law did think of such people when he lie said evaid t and who but wishes to invest the laws of order gins sins against tho the eternal cause |