Excerpt from Agriculture and Population, the Truest Proofs of the Welfare of the People, or an Essay on Public Happiness, Vol. 1: Investigating the State of Human Nature Through the Several Periods of History, From the Earliest Date to the Present Times Fter the Iapfe of fo many en lightened' ages, in which the molt in genious and laborious refearches of fuc ceflive writers appear, even in trifles, to have tried, examined, and compleated every fubjeet, I mutt prcfume to fix the attention of mankind upon new objeets. If it be demanded what thefc objects are, the anfvver is, that. They are become the molt 'efi'ential to our happinefs they lead to enquiries into a topic, an oh ligation, to difcufs which, is alarming; they point to the folution of a qucfiion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.