Ch. xiii. preceding View of Society. 535 



a considerable part of their lives in the exercise 

 of this virtue, than in past times and among un- 

 civilized nations. But however this may be, if 

 we consider only the general term which implies 

 principally a delay of the marriage union from 

 prudential considerations, without reference to 

 consequences, it may be considered in this light 

 as the most powerful of the checks, which in 

 modern Europe keep down the population to the 

 level of the means of subsistence. 





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