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in land. I have proved that thofe enormous pro- 

 perties produce the phyfical and moral indigence 

 of a Nation; that this indigence generated, in it's 

 turn, fwarms of debauched men, who employed all 

 the refources of craft and induftry to make the 

 rich refund the portion which their neceffities de- 

 mand ; that celibacy, and the difquietudes with 

 which it is attended, were, in a great many citi- 

 zens, the effects of that ftate of penury and an- 

 guifh to which they found themfelves reduced ; 

 and that their celibacy produced, by repercuffion, 

 the proftitution of women of the town, becaufe 

 every man who abftains from marriage, whether 

 voluntarily or from neceffity, devotes a young wo- 

 man to a fingle life, or to proftitution. This effe(5t 

 neceflarily refults from one of the harmonic Laws 

 of Nature, as every man comes into the World, 

 and goes out of it, with his female, or, what 

 amounts to the fame thing, the males and females 

 of the human fpecies are born and die in equal 

 numbers. From thefe principles I have deduced 

 a variety of important confequences. 



T have, finally, demonftrated. That no incon- 

 fiderable part of our phyfical and moral maladies 

 proceeded from the chaftifemcnts, the rewards, and 

 the vanity of our education. 



I have 



