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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... seem to require some apology . First some persons , who were convinced by the arg ments , have objected to the style as too prowery , and fuil of attempts at description . If I have erred in this respect , it has been from design . I ...
... seem to require some apology . First some persons , who were convinced by the arg ments , have objected to the style as too prowery , and fuil of attempts at description . If I have erred in this respect , it has been from design . I ...
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... seem to me to be pretty much in this situation at present . The poor , Sir , labour under a natural stigma ; they are natur- ally despised . Their interests are at best but coldly and remotely felt by the other classes of society . Mr ...
... seem to me to be pretty much in this situation at present . The poor , Sir , labour under a natural stigma ; they are natur- ally despised . Their interests are at best but coldly and remotely felt by the other classes of society . Mr ...
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... seems , that whether practicable , or no , Mr. Whitbread must bring in a Poor Bill . The effect of it appears to me to be putting the poor into the wardship of the rich , to be doing away the little remains of independence we have left ...
... seems , that whether practicable , or no , Mr. Whitbread must bring in a Poor Bill . The effect of it appears to me to be putting the poor into the wardship of the rich , to be doing away the little remains of independence we have left ...
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... seems the present plan is undertaken , though it differs in many of its features from the expe- dients recommended by that author . afraid that the parent discovery may , however , in spite of any efforts to prevent it , overlay the ...
... seems the present plan is undertaken , though it differs in many of its features from the expe- dients recommended by that author . afraid that the parent discovery may , however , in spite of any efforts to prevent it , overlay the ...
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... seems to have had a distinct idea of his own meaning . The principle itself is nei- ther new , nor does it prove any thing new ; least of all does it prove what he meant it to prove . His whole theory is a continued contradiction ; it ...
... seems to have had a distinct idea of his own meaning . The principle itself is nei- ther new , nor does it prove any thing new ; least of all does it prove what he meant it to prove . His whole theory is a continued contradiction ; it ...
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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.