ITS EVILS, AND THEIR REMEDIES: BEING A REFUTATION OF THE ERRORS OF THE EMIGRATION COMMITTEE TOUCHING THAT COUNTRY. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SYNOPSIS OF AN ORIGINAL TREATISE, ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED, ON THE LAW OF POPULATION; DEVELOPING THE REAL PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT IS UNIVERSALLY REGULATED. BY MICHAEL THOMAS SADLER. "DWELL IN THE LAND, AND VERILY THOU SHALT BE FED." LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXXVIII. CONTENTS. I. 1. IRELAND: the condition of its population apparently difficult to reconcile with the theory advanced in the Introduction to this work, and still less with the one 2. Prevailing misconceptions as to its evils and their 3. Table of the population at different periods during the II. Ireland not overpeopled in reference III. The alleged proofs of Ireland's being at present over- IV. The produce of Ireland has increased faster than its popu- Causes that have retarded the further improvement of Ireland. |