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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... " sufficient to nourish its numerous inhabitants , " what happy expedient could then be found " out to remedy so great an evil ? " In such a cruel necessity , must there be a law to restrain marriage ? Must multitudes " of women 26.
... " sufficient to nourish its numerous inhabitants , " what happy expedient could then be found " out to remedy so great an evil ? " In such a cruel necessity , must there be a law to restrain marriage ? Must multitudes " of women 26.
Σελίδα 28
... necessity of acting barbarously and in- " humanly ? Sad and fatal necessity ! And " which , after all , could never answer the end , " but would give rise to violence and war . For " mankind would never agree about such regu- " lations ...
... necessity of acting barbarously and in- " humanly ? Sad and fatal necessity ! And " which , after all , could never answer the end , " but would give rise to violence and war . For " mankind would never agree about such regu- " lations ...
Σελίδα 29
... necessity " of killing one another . But to suppose that in the course of a favourable providence , a " perfect government had been established , * Yet it is extraordinary that with all their wisdom and virtue they would not be able to ...
... necessity " of killing one another . But to suppose that in the course of a favourable providence , a " perfect government had been established , * Yet it is extraordinary that with all their wisdom and virtue they would not be able to ...
Σελίδα 39
... necessity , the end and the fulfilling of the com- mandment . I do not mean to say , that Mr. Malthus does not often shift his ground on this subject , or that he is not himself aware of the deception . It is sufficient for him that he ...
... necessity , the end and the fulfilling of the com- mandment . I do not mean to say , that Mr. Malthus does not often shift his ground on this subject , or that he is not himself aware of the deception . It is sufficient for him that he ...
Σελίδα 72
... freed from the shackles of necessity without having acquired the discipline of reason , though the one always instantly resumes its sway , the moment the other ceases , plunge into all the miseries of famine , without remorse , 72.
... freed from the shackles of necessity without having acquired the discipline of reason , though the one always instantly resumes its sway , the moment the other ceases , plunge into all the miseries of famine , without remorse , 72.
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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.