THE MALTHUSIAN HANDBOOK
Designed to induce Married People to Limit their Families within their Means.
PRICE SIXPENCE.
LONDON:
W. H. REYNOLDS, NEW CROSS, S.E.
4th Edition.—1898.
Introduction.
In every civilised State the problem of poverty is one which presses for solution. In some European countries it has, at times, locally assumed a critical and menacing form, threatening the very foundations upon which society is based. Revolutions have sprung from the fact that people needed food and could not obtain it; and, even in our own “highly favored” land, honest, industrious men are often driven to despair because they can neither get work nor food.