An Essay on the Principle of Population

Author: Thomas R. Malthus
J. Johnson: 1798

• Preface

1. Question stated
2. The Increase of Population v. Food
3. The savage state
4. State of civilized nations
5. The second check to population
6. New colonies
7. A probable cause of epidemics
8. Wallace
9. The organic perfectibility of man
10. Godwin's system of equality
11. Extinction of passion between the sexes
12. The prolongation of human life
13. Man as merely rational
14. Godwin's five propositions respecting political truth
15. Models too perfect may sometimes rather impede than promote improvement
16. Wealth and Happiness
17. Defining wealth of a state
18. Distress as Diving Will
19. The Sorrows of Life