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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OUR ACCOUNT WITH POSTEEITY. When in my childhood I used to read or hear read that the Lord God pnt the man and the woman into a garden and said to them, Increase and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it, the words never used to carry any particular meaning with them. What poetry (such as a child could seize) might gather around them was hindered by an ugly though illuminated copy of the arms of the Butchers' Company which happened often to come under my eye, along with the arms of the other city guilds. In this picture, there were oxen and sheep, and butchers and knives, and underneath all the rest, the words Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus, oves et boves. And when I had learned a very little geography, especially as I was a great maker of maps, planispheres, and all that, a new and uneasy view of the subject came into my mind. I then learned that the earth was only twenty-four thousand miles round, and the speculation, what was to be done when it became full, fascinated me at once. Nor was that all. Where was I to go and plant the New Atlantis which I had, before I was ten years old, elaborated in my own mind? There seemed so very little unappropriated land left or likely to be left, that yes, that I felt the prison-bars which ruffle the beating feathers as much as ever I have done since, You may laugh, but did you ever plan a Utopia ? The whole subject has often troubled me since thcu. I was in Fleet Street yesterday, and saw several nice-looking people, and several people who were not much to speak of either way ? but there were too many of 'em. True, it is very difficult to be practically consistent in these matters. Malthus had children and so have I. The rule of political economy is that in a full country you must not have more children than will re...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217548458 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217548458 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.80 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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