Statistical Illustrations of the Territorial Extent and Population

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Excerpt from Statistical Illustrations of the Territorial Extent and Population: Commerce, Taxation, Consumption, Insolvency, Pauperism, and Crime, of the British Empire The History of Great Britain, through a period of nearly 2000 years, is marked by a succession of events, in a high degree striking and interesting, and although she exhibits no monuments of human art, or of human labour, to compare with those of Thebes or of Ellora, in the accompanying Statistics, she exhibits features, without any parallel within the entire range of human knowledge and she may, at the pre sent time, be justly regarded as a phenomenon in Social Economy. The several subjects exhibited may be considered as ranging under four general heads viz. Population, Administration, Commerce, Finance. As regards the first of these general subjects, viz. Population, the prac tice of enumeration has been too recently adopted, and 'too imperfectly performed, to justify any absolute conclusion being drawn from it:, but as far as conclusions are justified, a progressive deterioration in the comfort and condition (physical, mental, and moral, ) of the people at large is the result. It is however uniformly contended, that the people are quiet, (and such appears to be the fact and it is therefore inferred that they are contented and happy, but, as far as the position applies to the great body of the British people, it is not the quiet of happiness that prevails, but of apathy, resulting from a broken and subdued Spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.