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Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by Sir William Petty
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8. How the city of London may be made (morally speaking)
invincible.

9. A help to uniformity in religion.

10. That it is possible to increase mankind by generation four
times more than at present.

11. The plagues of London is the chief impediment and objection
against the growth of the city.

12. That an exact account of the people is necessary in this
matter.



OF THE GROWTH OF THE CITY OF LONDON: And of the Measures, Periods,
Causes, and Consequences thereof



By the city of London we mean the housing within the walls of the
old city, with the liberties thereof, Westminster, the Borough of
Southwark, and so much of the built ground in Middlesex and Surrey,
whose houses are contiguous unto, or within call of those
aforementioned. Or else we mean the housing which stand upon the
ninety-seven parishes within the walls of London; upon the sixteen
parishes next without them; the six parishes of Westminster, and the
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