,72 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arls^ and Letters. 



1. In regard to population and sustenance, nature works as 

 -everywhere else, in harmony with herself and for and not 

 against the increasing prosperity of the race. 



2. Up to the present time, in every healthily ordered com- 

 munity, all increase of population has been accompanied by 

 still larger increase in the productiveness of labor in agricul- 

 ture, in the mechanical arts and in the emancipation of mind 

 from the dominion of matter. 



3. Whatever remote limit there may be to the capability of 

 the earth to afford subsistence, and whatever may have been 

 the rate of increase of population, it is evident that the increase 

 of sustenance hitherto has been greater than that of popula- 

 tion ; and that in the order of nature they will adjust them- 

 relves to each other without artificial restriction or destruc- 

 tive checks. 



4. Notwithstanding the crowded condition of some localities 

 and the vast population of the globe, only a comparatively 

 small fraction of the earth's capabilities of support for man 

 have yet been exhausted, and if humanity is anywhere a drag 

 or a nuisance, it is because the animal in it prevails over the 

 rational and the spiritual. 



5. The increase of individuality and of association is the 

 one essential instrument to the upward and forward movement 

 ■of the race. This depends upon the largest practicable diver- 

 sity of industry, the bringing of men into the most intimate 

 commerce with each other, rapid societary circulation, and all 

 possible facilities of education and development. 



