The Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations

Chap. VI

Of the interior causes of decline, which arise from the produce of the soil becoming unequal to the sustenance of a luxurious people. — Of monopoly............137

Chap. VII

Of the increase of the poor, as general affluence becomes greater. — Of children left unprovided for. — Of their division into two classes. — Those that can labour more or less, and those that can do no labour.................. 156