Excerpt from On Certain Tests of a Thriving Population: Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1845 Let us take, -for instance, the article of grain in the first place. Mr. Charles Smith, in his Tracts on the Corn Trade, estimated the population of England and Wales in 1760 at which is sufficiently near the truth for our present en quiry. The entire consumption of grain at that time he estimated to be quarters, of which quarters were wheat, and of the remainder consisted of barley, of rye, and of oats. 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.