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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... operate as correctives on the habitual meanness and selfishness of our nature : at present this order is reversed ; and it is discovered that justice and humanity are not obstacles in the way of , but that they are the most effectual ...
... operate as correctives on the habitual meanness and selfishness of our nature : at present this order is reversed ; and it is discovered that justice and humanity are not obstacles in the way of , but that they are the most effectual ...
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... specifics , it is to operate equally on all constitutions and in all cases . But I may ask , Is the education of the poor the only circumstance in which Scotland differs from England sure of the instruments he is to employ in the ...
... specifics , it is to operate equally on all constitutions and in all cases . But I may ask , Is the education of the poor the only circumstance in which Scotland differs from England sure of the instruments he is to employ in the ...
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... operate , and is still the case in many coun- tries ) the power of increase in the productions of the earth , and consequently , in the support of population would be exactly in proportion to the population itself , for there would be ...
... operate , and is still the case in many coun- tries ) the power of increase in the productions of the earth , and consequently , in the support of population would be exactly in proportion to the population itself , for there would be ...
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... operate ; and the gradual increase that might take place after that period , is not in my opinion ( who am no great specu- lator ) of sufficient importance to deserve a pom- pous appellation . I would , therefore , rather stop there ...
... operate ; and the gradual increase that might take place after that period , is not in my opinion ( who am no great specu- lator ) of sufficient importance to deserve a pom- pous appellation . I would , therefore , rather stop there ...
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... operate equally to prevent any tremendous consequences , whether the actual population is great or small ; that is , whether it is stopped only from having reached the utmost limits pre- scribed by nature , or whether it has been ...
... operate equally to prevent any tremendous consequences , whether the actual population is great or small ; that is , whether it is stopped only from having reached the utmost limits pre- scribed by nature , or whether it has been ...
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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...