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check emigration in a country already over peopled , may be classed with the superlative wiadom of heatitig out tea-kettles above thfe boiling point , and then closing every Vent through which the dangerous steam we have caused to be generated might escape . But tfhen we turn from those Who in the language
of the d&y have been called Destructives to those who have called themselves Conservatives , we look in vain for ft satisfactory ex * p lanatioii of their pertinacious rejection bf checks to population . When the circumstances of the case forbid our referring their Opinions , or at least their professions , to superstition , the super * stition of the Spanish ttiotik , who forbid the embanking and
turning of a river , on the ground that if God had wished it t 6 flow in that direction he Would doubtless have so ordered it , — when , we repeat , we cannot attribute the opinions of conservatives to superstition , we are forced to ascribe them to that bigotry of party which perseveres in error , because that party and its accredited organ once professed it . Some persons , indeed , call
this perseverance in ill-doing consistency , and others even honour it by the name of principle , but to our poor apprehension it appears the unworthy bigotry of party , and though it may put on the priestly black , or the virgin white , its true colour is blood-red ; for when in an already over peopled country there is no sufficient prudential restraint oh population , or adequate outlet by an
organized emigration which ought to include a proportion of all classes of society , the elements of destruction will soon be at work . The plain truth about population is necessary to be known by the inhabitants of an over-peopled country . From whom are they to le&rn it ? From one who boldly teaches downright falsehood ? who bids them to cease their doubts about checks to
population , for that amongst the poorfest there shall be no check ? who tells them to leave their delays about emigration , for that not a poor man shall quit the country ? This will never do . There id but one plain principle— -that it was wise—that it is wise—that it will be wise , to adhere to truth , for this reason only , even if there were no higher , that the effects of truth are most suited to the wants of the time , and that the effects of falsehood are the reverse
of the objects proposed by the false . We now proceed to track the Quarterly sophist through many doublings to his earth , a den ffofn which sophistries , and deceptions , and misery have long been emanating . We will begin with his last double , save the one through which we have already hunted him . 4
We hardly think it worth while / says the Quarterly Reviewer , in his notice of the tale entitled the Charmed Sea , ' to remark upon Another story , in which this lady ( Miss Martineau ) is good enough to exemplify the phenomena of money , by supposing a Siberian market carried on very briskly for a whole day upon Jive mouse skins , as the Bole circulating medium ! And this trash is to bring political economy within the comprehension of babes and sucklings /—( Quarterly Review , p . 150 . )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/30/
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