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• Book III: Of the Different Systems Or Expedients Which Have Been Proposed Or Have Prevailed In Society, As They Affect the Evils Arising From the Principle of Population
• Chapter I: Of Systems of Equality. Wallace, Condorcet.
• Chapter II: Of Systems of Equality. Godwin.
• Chapter III: Of Systems of Equality (continued).
• Chapter IV: Of Emigration.
• Chapter V: Of Poor Laws.
• Chapter VI: Of Poor Laws, Continued.
• Chapter VII: Of Poor Laws, Continued.
• Chapter VIII: Of the Agricultural System.
• Chapter IX: Of the Commercial System.
• Chapter X: Of Systems of Agriculture and Commerce Combined.
• Chapter XI: Of Corn-laws. Bounties Upon Exportation.
• Chapter XII: Of Corn-laws. Restrictions Upon Importation.
• Chapter XIII: Of Increasing Wealth, As It Affects the Condition of the Poor.
• Chapter XIV: General Observations.
• Book IV: Of Our Future Prospects Respecting the Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils Arising From the Principle of Population.
• Chapter I: Of Moral Restraint, and Our Obligation to Practise This Virtue.
• Chapter II: Of the Effects Which Would Result to Society From the Prevalence of Moral Restraint.
• Chapter III: Of the Only Effectual Mode of Improving the Condition of the Poor.
• Chapter IV: Objections to This Mode Considered.
• Chapter V: Of the Consequences of Pursuing the Opposite Mode.
• Chapter VI: Effects of the Knowledge of the Principal Cause of Poverty On Civil Liberty.
• Chapter VII: Continuation of the Same Subject. 24
• Chapter VIII: Plan of the Gradual Abolition of the Poor Laws Proposed.
• Chapter IX: Of the Modes of Correcting the Prevailing Opinions On Population.
• Chapter X: Of the Direction of Our Charity.
• Chapter XI: Different Plans of Improving the Condition of the Poor Considered.
• Chapter XII: Continuation of the Same Subject. 50
• Chapter XIII: Of the Necessity of General Principles On This Subject.
• Chapter XIV: Of Our Rational Expectations Respecting the Future Improvement of Society.
• Appendix I,: 1807
• Appendix Ii,: 1817
• Appendix Iii,: 1825

Appendix III,

1825

Since the last edition of this Work was published, an answer from Mr. Godwin has appeared; but the character of it, both as to matter and manner, is such, that I quite sure every candid and competent inquirer after truth will agree with me in thinking that it does not require a reply. To return abusive declamation in kind would be as unedifying to the reader as it would be disagreeable in me; and to argue seriously with one who denies the most glaring and best attested facts respecting the progress of America, Ireland, England, and other states, and brings forward Sweden, one of of the most barren and worst-supplied countries of Europe, as a specimen of what would be the natural increase of population under the greatest abundance of food, would evidently be quite vain with regard to the writer himself, and must be totally uncalled for by any of his readers whose authority could avail in the establishment of truth.