The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

as long as a
great number of those impressions which form character, like the nice
motions of the arm, remain absolutely independent of the will of man,
though it would be the height of folly and presumption to attempt to
calculate the relative proportions of virtue and vice at the future periods
of the world, it may be safely asserted that the vices and moral
weakness of mankind, taken in the mass, are invincible.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.