ig8 NO STRUGGLE NO SELECTION 



craving, and partly to obtain a wife to be his fellow- 

 drudge iu the labours of farming. To a married 

 couple thus circumstanced a large family would prove, 

 at least in prospect, too heavy a burden to bear. 



The custom in France of parents limiting the 

 number of their children came in with, and was 

 necessitated by, the present law of equal inheritance. 



