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Mr. Godwin’s conjecture respecting the future approach of man towards immortality on earth, seems to be rather oddly placed in a chapter, which professes to remove the objection to his system of equality from the principle of population. Unless he supposes the passion between the sexes to decrease faster, than the duration of life increases, the earth would be more encumbered than ever. But leaving this difficulty to Mr. God-win, let us examine a few of the appearances from which the probable immortality of man is inferred.
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Malthus, T.R. (1966). Chap. XII. In: First Essay on Population 1798. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81729-0_12
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