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I. The Benefit to the Nation consists in the greatest of all natural blessings, a plentiful and settled supply of food, chiefly the growth of our own soil. Since the time when Malthus enunciated the shameful doctrine that famine, pestilence, and war were checks designed by Grod to decimate the people of his own creation, the population of Grreat Britain has doubled itself. * In 1801, there were, on an average, in England and Wales, /bt^r acres of land to every person, and twenty- three acres to... every inhabited house ; in 1851, there were, on an average, two acres of land to every person, and eleven acres to every inhabited house. Yet the people are now better fed, and the blessings of a variety of good and cheap food are more widely diffused than at any former period of our country's history. Thus we see that, in half a century, two people have to be siistained where only one existed before, in England and A¥ales ; and the increase for the whole area of Great Britain is less than this only by some 10 per cent.
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