Such was the distress in England in the early part of this century that Malthus. a representative of the Christian civilization of Europe. in order to put a curb or a check upon multiplication of laborers beyond the means to employ them. enunciated a doctrine which is abhorrentto our feelings and against human nature itself. And now lately in the bills of Mr. Gladstone the acts regulating Irish matters it has been provided for the purpose of relieving laborers in Ireland that in certain cases emigration may be aided by the government itself. We know that in Ireland before the famine of 184647 although wages were down to a starvation point. not onehalf of the laborers there could receive any employment at all. I speak of these things to show that this great question has been deemed the important question of modern civilization. and that it has not yet been decided.
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