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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... never be forgiven by those whose resentment they have most reason to dread . This however there will be no danger of . The state of public feeling , the dispositions of individuals , the nar- row jealousy of parties , and the interests ...
... never be forgiven by those whose resentment they have most reason to dread . This however there will be no danger of . The state of public feeling , the dispositions of individuals , the nar- row jealousy of parties , and the interests ...
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... never be misapplied , that it can never be made the instrument and incen- ' tive to mischief , or that it can never be mixed and contaminated with " baser matter ? " Do not the peculiar principles and discipline of the church of ...
... never be misapplied , that it can never be made the instrument and incen- ' tive to mischief , or that it can never be mixed and contaminated with " baser matter ? " Do not the peculiar principles and discipline of the church of ...
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... never answer the end , " but would give rise to violence and war . For " mankind would never agree about such regu- lations . Force , and arms , must at last decide " their quarrels , and the deaths of such as fall in 66 battle , leave ...
... never answer the end , " but would give rise to violence and war . For " mankind would never agree about such regu- lations . Force , and arms , must at last decide " their quarrels , and the deaths of such as fall in 66 battle , leave ...
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... never be able to multiply so as to be able to ** overstock the earth . " From this view of the circumstances of the " world , notwithstanding the high opinion we " have of the merits of Sir Thomas More , and " other admired projectors ...
... never be able to multiply so as to be able to ** overstock the earth . " From this view of the circumstances of the " world , notwithstanding the high opinion we " have of the merits of Sir Thomas More , and " other admired projectors ...
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... never to lose sight of " them , or any proper opportunity of trans- 86 planting the wisest of their maxims into their own governments , as far as they are adapted to " their particular circumstances , and will give " no occasion to ...
... never to lose sight of " them , or any proper opportunity of trans- 86 planting the wisest of their maxims into their own governments , as far as they are adapted to " their particular circumstances , and will give " no occasion to ...
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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...