Laws on Population on Superphysics

The Population Growth of Humans and Animals

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Female animals have an almost constant fecundity. But in the human species, the manner of thinking, the character, the passions, the humour, the caprice, the idea of preserving beauty, the pain of childbearing, and the fatigue of a too numerous family, obstruct propagation a thousand different ways.

The Father’s Consent to Marriage

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THE consent of fathers is founded on:

their authority as their right of property
their love, reason, and
the uncertainty of that of their children, whom youth confines in a state of ignorance, and passion in a state of ebriety.

In the small republics, or singular institutions already mentioned, they might have laws which gave to magistrates that right of inspection over the marriages of the children of citizens, which nature had already given to fathers. The love of the public might there equal or surpass all other love.

The Severity of Government

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Chapter 11: The Severity of Government

MEN who have absolutely nothing, such as beggars, have many children.

This proceeds from their being in the case of a rising people.
It costs the father nothing to give his art to his offspring, who even in their infancy are the instruments of this art.

These people multiply in a rich or superstitious country because they do not support the burden of society.

Population Policy

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Population policy depends greatly on circumstances. There are countries, in which nature does all.

There is no need to encourage propagation when a fruitful climate yields enough people. Sometimes, the climate is more favourable than the soil. The people multiply, and are destroyed by famine.

The Romans Needed to make Laws to increase their Population

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THE Romans, by destroying others, were themselves destroyed. How did the Romans increase their population?

Chapter 21: Roman Population Laws

THE ancient laws of Rome tried hard to get people to marry. Dio says that Augusus said:

Constantine's Law

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(The Papian law forbade the senators marrying freed-women)

Constantine made a law, in which he comprehended, in the prohibition of the Papian law, not only the senators, but even such as had a considerable rank in the state, without mentioning persons in an inferior station. This constituted the law of those times.

Infanticide and Healthcare Policy

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THE Roman policy was very good in respect to abortion.

Dionysius Halicarnasseus says that Romulus made the citizens educate:

all their male children
the eldest of their daughters.

If the infants were deformed and monstrous, he permitted killing them after showing them to 5 of their nearest neighbours.

How to Remedy a Depopulation; Healthcare Policy

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WHEN a state is depopulated by particular accidents, by wars, pestilence, or famine, there are still resources left.

The men who remain may preserve the spirit of industry. They may seek to repair their misfortunes, and calamity itself may make them become more industrious.