Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ... i rot PONTENTS QF THE SECOND VOlUM BOOK II. i 0HAP. IX. On the Fruitfulness of Marriages X. Effects of Epidemics on Registers of Births, Deaths, and Marriages - 31 XI. General deductions from the preceding view of Society - 49 BOOK III. r THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OR EXPF.DIENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN PROPOSED OR HAVE PREVAILED IN SOCIETY, AS THEY AFFECT THE EVILS ARISING FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION. Chap. I. Of Systems of Equality. Wallace. Con dorcet - - - 77 II. Of Systems of Equality. Godwin. - c$ III. Observations on the Reply of Mr. Godwin, 122 IV. Of Emigration - -m * 134. ESSAY, &c. BOOK II. CHAP. IX. .On the fruitsulness of Marriages. It would be extremely desirable to be able to deduce from the rate of increase, the actual population, and the registers of births, deaths, and marriages, in different countries, the real prolifickness of marriages, and the true proportion of the born which lives to marry. Perhaps the problem may not be capable of an accurate solution, but we shall make some approximation towards it, and be able to account for some of the. difficulties which appear in many registers, if we attend to the following considerations DEGREES It should be premised however, that in the registers of most countries there is some reason, to believe, that the omissions in the births and deaths are greater than in the marriages; and consequently, that the proportion of marriages is almost always given too great. In the enume Yol. ii. B ration ration which lately took place in this country, while it is suppofed with reason, that the registry of' marriages is nearly correct, it is known with certainty, that there are very great omissions in the births and deaths'; and it is probable that similar omissions, though not perhaps.
