IV CONTENTS. 



BOOK IV. 



OF OUR FUTURE PROSPECTS RESPECTING THE REMOVAL 

 OR MITIGATION OF THE EVILS ARISING FROM THE PRIN- 

 CIPLE OF POPULATION. 



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I. Of moral Reatiaint, and our Obligation to 



practise this Virtue 255 



II. Of the Effects which would result to Society 



from the Prevalence of Moral Restraint. . 270 



III. Of the only effectual Mode of improving the 



Condition of the Poor 283 



IV. Objections to this Mode considered. . . . 292 

 V. Of the Consequences of pursuing the opposite 



Mode. . 300 



VI. Effects of the Knowledge of the principal Cause 



of Poverty on Civil Liberty 311 



VII. Continuation of the same Subject. . . . . 328 

 VIII. Plan of the gradual Abolition of the Poor-Lavvs 



proposed 335 



IX. Of the Modes of correcting the prevailing 



Opinions on Population .351 



X. Of the Direction of our Charity 36l 



XI. Different Plans of improving the Condition of 



the Poor considered 374 



XII. Continuation of the same Subject 394 



XIII. Of the Necessity of general Principles on this 



Subject 412 



XIV. Of our rational Expectations respecting the 



future Improvement of Society 431 



Appendix 443 



