 | Of Population — Book 2, Chapter 07 : Recapitulation of the Evidence of the Swedish TablesBy William Godwin (1820) |
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| Of Population — Book 2, Chapter 07 : Recapitulation of the Evidence of the Swedish TablesBy William Godwin (1820) |
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Respected Anarchist Philosopher and Sociologist of the Enlightenment Era
: His most famous work, An Inquiry concerning Political Justice, appeared in 1793, inspired to some extent by the political turbulence and fundamental restructuring of governmental institutions underway in France. Godwin's belief is that governments are fundamentally inimical to the integrity of the human beings living under their strictures... (From: University of Pennsylvania Bio.)
• "Courts are so encumbered and hedged in with ceremony, that the members of them are always prone to imagine that the form is more essential and indispensable, than the substance." (From: "Instructions to a Statesman," by William Godwin.)
• "Anarchy and darkness will be the original appearance. But light shall spring out of the noon of night; harmony and order shall succeed the chaos." (From: "Instructions to a Statesman," by William Godwin.)
• "Fickleness and instability, your lordship will please to observe, are of the very essence of a real statesman." (From: "Instructions to a Statesman," by William Godwin.)
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Book 2, Chapter 07
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Annual Deaths on an Average of 21 years, from 1755 to 1776
| Age | Males | Females |
| Under one year | 9,664 | 8,355 |
| Between 1 and 3 | 3,592 | 3,531 |
| 3-5 | 1,816 | 1,774 |
| 5-10 | 1,789 | 1,672 |
| 10-15 | 893 | 802 |
| 15-20 | 741 | 714 |
| 20-25 | 874 | 776 |
| 25-30 | 879 | 872 |
| 30-35 | 953 | 1,058 |
| 35-40 | 907 | 901 |
| 40-45 | 1,119 | 1,129 |
| 45-50 | 1,077 | 958 |
| 50-55 | 1,233 | 1,127 |
| 55-60 | 1,180 | 1,163 |
| 60-65 | 1,383 | 1,597 |
| 65-70 | 1,328 | 1,510 |
| 70-75 | 1,360 | 1,935 |
| 75-80 | 1,023 | 1,527 |
| 80-85 | 784 | 1,230 |
| 85-90 | 883 | 609 |
| Upwards of 90- | 195 | 339 |
| blank | 33, 180 | 33, 579 |
| Age | Males | Females |
| Under one year | 33882 | 333640 |
| Between 1 and 3 | 62155 | 63005 |
| 3-5 | 62696 | 63551 |
| 5-10 | 121871 | 122460 |
| 10-15 | 117879 | 118419 |
| 15-20 | 103093 | 105845 |
| 20-25 | 91907 | 102306 |
| 25-30 | 82919 | 93315 |
| 30-35 | 78615 | 87129 |
| 35-40 | 70390 | 77077 |
| 40-45 | 68961 | 70405 |
| 45-50 | 52083 | 59580 |
| 50-55 | 44908 | 52689 |
| 55-60 | 36258 | 44211 |
| 60-65 | 30772 | 39416 |
| 65-70 | 21170 | 29610 |
| 70-75 | 14610 | 21776 |
| 75-80 | 8224 | 12515 |
| 80-85 | 4036 | 6418 |
| 85-90 | 1522 | 2492 |
| Upwards of 90 | 486 | 869 |
| Males | 1,103,432 | 1,206,728 |
| Females | 1,206,728 | blank |
| Total | 2,310,160 | blank |
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The result of the whole then is, that there is some probability, but by no means a certainty, that the population of Sweden has experienced an increase in most periods of time, from the commencement of the enumerations in the middle of the last century, to the present hour. But it is impossible to ascertain the rate of that increase, since its very existence is by no means beyond the reach of doubt. And yet this is all we have, by way of evidence, from the source of enumerations, of the inherent power in man of augmenting the number of his species. Respecting Sweden we have something approaching to authentic information: we may safely pronounce, that if there has been any actual increase, it at least amounts to comparatively very little. Of the rest of the world, so far as relates to a comparison of the number of native inhabitants from parent to child in successive periods, we know nothing.
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Respected Anarchist Philosopher and Sociologist of the Enlightenment Era
: His most famous work, An Inquiry concerning Political Justice, appeared in 1793, inspired to some extent by the political turbulence and fundamental restructuring of governmental institutions underway in France. Godwin's belief is that governments are fundamentally inimical to the integrity of the human beings living under their strictures... (From: University of Pennsylvania Bio.)
• "Courts are so encumbered and hedged in with ceremony, that the members of them are always prone to imagine that the form is more essential and indispensable, than the substance." (From: "Instructions to a Statesman," by William Godwin.)
• "Anarchy and darkness will be the original appearance. But light shall spring out of the noon of night; harmony and order shall succeed the chaos." (From: "Instructions to a Statesman," by William Godwin.)
• "Fickleness and instability, your lordship will please to observe, are of the very essence of a real statesman." (From: "Instructions to a Statesman," by William Godwin.)
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