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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... questions without under- standing them ; and have that perplexed and plodding kind of intellect , which takes delight in difficulties , and contradictions , without ever coming to a conclusion . They feel most in- terest in things which ...
... questions without under- standing them ; and have that perplexed and plodding kind of intellect , which takes delight in difficulties , and contradictions , without ever coming to a conclusion . They feel most in- terest in things which ...
Σελίδα 38
... question , Till the world is full , or at least till every country is full , that is , maintains as many inhabitants as the soil will admit , namely , till it can be proved satisfactorily that it might not by taking proper methods be ...
... question , Till the world is full , or at least till every country is full , that is , maintains as many inhabitants as the soil will admit , namely , till it can be proved satisfactorily that it might not by taking proper methods be ...
Σελίδα 51
... , selfish and merely sen- sual motives : this is implied in the very state- ment of the question . " What conjuration and what mighty magic " should thus blind our phi- losophical descendants on this single subject in which they are 51.
... , selfish and merely sen- sual motives : this is implied in the very state- ment of the question . " What conjuration and what mighty magic " should thus blind our phi- losophical descendants on this single subject in which they are 51.
Σελίδα 53
... question : it is not arguing against the state of society we are considering from the consequences to which it would give rise , but against the possibility of its ever existing . It is absurd to object to a sys- tem on account of the ...
... question : it is not arguing against the state of society we are considering from the consequences to which it would give rise , but against the possibility of its ever existing . It is absurd to object to a sys- tem on account of the ...
Σελίδα 60
... question yet remains , which is not how Mr. Malthus came by his dis- covery , nor whether he was right in endeavour- ing to exemplify it in the first instance by shew- ing its effects on an imaginary state of society where it would be ...
... question yet remains , which is not how Mr. Malthus came by his dis- covery , nor whether he was right in endeavour- ing to exemplify it in the first instance by shew- ing its effects on an imaginary state of society where it would be ...
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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.