The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.


Chapter IV, paragraph 13, lines 11-15. - An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised)

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The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must...

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must...

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must...

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must...