A Reply to the Essay on Population: By the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a Series of Letters ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - 378 strán (strany) |
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... classes of society . Mr. Malthus's book has done all that was wanting to increase this indifference and apathy . But it is neither generous nor just , to come in aid of the narrow prejudices and hard- heartedness of mankind , with ...
... classes of society . Mr. Malthus's book has done all that was wanting to increase this indifference and apathy . But it is neither generous nor just , to come in aid of the narrow prejudices and hard- heartedness of mankind , with ...
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... classes of the people . But , I am not equally sure that the means employed for this very purpose may not be made a handle for stifling every principle of liberty and honour in the hearts of a free people . It will be no difficult ...
... classes of the people . But , I am not equally sure that the means employed for this very purpose may not be made a handle for stifling every principle of liberty and honour in the hearts of a free people . It will be no difficult ...
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... classes of society , does not the state of cultivation , do not the employments of the people , the absence of luxury , and tempta- tion , the small number of great towns , and the remains of ancient customs , tend to strengthen , to ...
... classes of society , does not the state of cultivation , do not the employments of the people , the absence of luxury , and tempta- tion , the small number of great towns , and the remains of ancient customs , tend to strengthen , to ...
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... classes of so- ciety it must be a source of continual satis- faction to their minds by relieving them from the troublesome feelings so frequently occasioned by the remains of certain silly prejudices , and by enabling them to set so ...
... classes of so- ciety it must be a source of continual satis- faction to their minds by relieving them from the troublesome feelings so frequently occasioned by the remains of certain silly prejudices , and by enabling them to set so ...
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... classes of it to a great degree of want and hardship and as far as their imprudence and folly will carry them , they will go , but they will not go farther . They will submit to be pinched , but not to be starved , unless this con ...
... classes of it to a great degree of want and hardship and as far as their imprudence and folly will carry them , they will go , but they will not go farther . They will submit to be pinched , but not to be starved , unless this con ...
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Strana 285 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
Strana 222 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strana 122 - I think I may fairly make two postulata. First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary, and will remain nearly in its present state.
Strana 82 - In the next period, the population would be eighty-eight millions, and the means of subsistence just equal to the support of half that number. And at the conclusion of the first century, the population would be...
Strana 145 - They are alike hostile to intellectual improvement. The other vices of envy, malice, and revenge are their inseparable companions. In a state of society where men lived in the midst of plenty and where all shared alike the...
Strana 83 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Strana 290 - who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is.
Strana 58 - ... swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless, like that pygmean race...
Strana 356 - I should propose a regulation to be made, declaring that no child born from any marriage taking place after the expiration of a year from the date of the law, and no illegitimate child born two years from the same date, should ever be entitled to parish assistance.
Strana 291 - The report of a provision for all that come fills the hall with numerous claimants. The order and harmony of the feast is disturbed, the plenty that before reigned is changed into scarcity; and the happiness of the guests is destroyed by the spectacle of misery and dependence in every...