Ch. vii. Of Pcoi'-Laics, continued. 117 



to support on the land, whatever be their number, 

 and that there is no occasion to exercise any pru- 

 dence in the affair of marriage so as to check this 

 number, the temptations, according to all the 

 known principles of human nature, will inevitably 

 be yielded to, and more and more will gradually 

 become dependent on parish assistance. There 

 cannot therefore be a greater inconsistency and 

 contradiction than that those who maintain these 

 doctrines respecting the poor, should still com- 

 plain of the number of paupers. Such doctrines 

 and a crowd of paupers are unavoidably united ; 

 and it is utterly beyond the power of any revolu- 

 tion or change of government to separate them. 



