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chapter on the Poor- Laws ; and as it appeared 

 to me that the chapters on the Agricultural 

 and Commercial Systems, and the Effects of 

 increasing Wealth on the Poor, were not either 

 so well arranged, or so immediately applicable 

 to the main subject, as they ought to be; and 

 as I further wished to make some alterations 

 in the chapter on Bounties upon Exportation, 

 and add something on the subject of Re- 

 strictions upon Importation,! have recast and 

 rewritten the chapters which stand the 8th, 

 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, in the present 

 edition ; and given a new title, and added two 

 or three passages, to the 14th and last chapter 

 of the same book. 



In the fourth book I have added a new 

 chapter to the one entitled Effects of the 

 Knowledge of the principal Cause of Poverty 

 on Civil Liberty ; and another to the chapter 

 on the Different Plans of improving the Poor ; 

 and I have made a considerable addition to 

 the Appendix, in reply to some writers on the 

 Principles of Population, whose works have 

 appeared since the last edition. 



These are the principal additions and altera- 

 tions made in the present edition. They 



