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“Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.”

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Sun Myung Moon was a South Korean religious leader who founded the Unification Church in 1954. He is recognized for his teachings on family values and world peace. His followers believe he is the messiah and the second coming of Christ. more

“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Thinking Want Whole Use Hands Seems Opportunity House Poor Attention Expression Exercise Mouths Saving Vulgar Ale

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.”

Should Used Causes Paid Institutions Trade Corporations Labour Endeavor Agriculture Apprenticeship

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.”

Men Misery Alas Recurrence

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.”

Philosophy Spirit Fall Divine Stones Plant Agency Accord Divine Power

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.”

World Years Moving Passion Sex Taken Five Thousand Six Thousand Years Extinction

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.”

Earth Force Sun Moon Distance Rounds Squares Vary Orbit Ratios Inverse

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.”

Men States Might Population Savages Ratios

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.”

Mind Has Beens Reason Seems Earth Evil Talent Eternal Mass Instruments Excited Impression Revelations Disgusting Vicious Abhorrence

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.”

Humans May Political Views Common Economy Harm Practicals Human Life Branches Human Knowledge Political Economy

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

“To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.”

Country Would Be Values Poor Pay Revolution Degrees Benefits Discovery Concerned Soldier Delight Payment Newton Enchanted Milton

Book:Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

Source: Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

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