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 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 36
... greater number than it did before . Thus Noah might have taken possession of the three contiguous quarters of the globe for himself and his three sons ; and , if instead of having three sons , he had had three hundred , there would , I ...
... greater number than it did before . Thus Noah might have taken possession of the three contiguous quarters of the globe for himself and his three sons ; and , if instead of having three sons , he had had three hundred , there would , I ...
Σελίδα 37
... greater extent of surface occupied , which may be en- larged as fast as there are numbers to occupy it . I have been thus particular , because mathema- tical terms carry with them an imposing air of accuracy and profundity , and ought ...
... greater extent of surface occupied , which may be en- larged as fast as there are numbers to occupy it . I have been thus particular , because mathema- tical terms carry with them an imposing air of accuracy and profundity , and ought ...
Σελίδα 44
... greater plenty , and a greater number of mouths to partake of it , they were doing a disservice to humanity . Then comes Mr. Malthus with his oc- tavo book , and tells us there is another great evil , which had never been found out , or ...
... greater plenty , and a greater number of mouths to partake of it , they were doing a disservice to humanity . Then comes Mr. Malthus with his oc- tavo book , and tells us there is another great evil , which had never been found out , or ...
Σελίδα 45
... greater and more to be dreaded than all others put together ; and that its approach could only be checked by vice and misery : that any increase of virtue or happiness , was the di- rect way to hasten it on ; and that in proportion as ...
... greater and more to be dreaded than all others put together ; and that its approach could only be checked by vice and misery : that any increase of virtue or happiness , was the di- rect way to hasten it on ; and that in proportion as ...
Σελίδα 49
... greater degree of human happiness than is compatible with the present institutions of society , I have nothing to do with either of these points . I will allow to any one who pleases that all such schemes are " false , sophistical ...
... greater degree of human happiness than is compatible with the present institutions of society , I have nothing to do with either of these points . I will allow to any one who pleases that all such schemes are " false , sophistical ...
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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 82 - ... the means of subsistence would be equal to this increase. In the next twe.ntyfive years the population would be forty-four millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirty-three millions.
Σελίδα 144 - ... in civil society to human institutions. Political regulations, and the established administration of property are with him the fruitful sources of all evil, the hotbeds of all the crimes that degrade mankind. Were this really a true state of the case, it would not seem...
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 83 - In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for ever and be greater than any assignable quantity; yet still the power of population being in every period so much superior, the increase of the human species can only be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence by the constant operation of the strong law of necessity, acting as a check upon the greater power.
Σελίδα 178 - It is the hope of bettering our condition, and the fear of want, rather than want itself, that is the best stimulus to industry ; and its most constant and best directed efforts will almost invariably be found among a class of people above the class of the wretchedly poor.
Σελίδα 288 - 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.