In our busy life, preoccupied as we are with the numberless petty affairs of everyday existence, we are all too much inclined to pass by, many great evils which affect Society without giving them the attention they really deserve. If sensational "revelations" about some dark side of our life occasionally find their way into the daily Press; if they succeed in shaking our indifference and awaken public attention, we may have in the papers, for a month or two, excellent articles and letters on the subject. Many well-meant things may then be said, the most humane feelings expressed. But the agitation soon subsides; and, after having asked for some new regulations or laws, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of regulations and laws already in force; after having made some microscopic attempts at combating by a few individual efforts a deep-rooted evil which ought to be combated by the combined efforts of Society at large, we soon return to our daily occupations without c...
Godwin, William. Of Population. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820. CHAPTER VII. 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,...