The question is, what is saving? - Thomas Robert Malthus

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

But, fortunately for mankind, the neat rents of the land, under a system of private property, can never be diminished by the progress of cultivation.