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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... virtue and be- nevolence are best answered by the meanness , pride , extravagance , and insensibility of indi- viduals . This is certainly a very convenient -doctrine ; and it is not to be wondered at , that it should have become so ...
... virtue and be- nevolence are best answered by the meanness , pride , extravagance , and insensibility of indi- viduals . This is certainly a very convenient -doctrine ; and it is not to be wondered at , that it should have become so ...
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... virtue and hap- piness of the lower classes of the people . But , I am not equally sure that the means employed for this very purpose may not be made a handle for stifling every principle of liberty and honour in the hearts of a free ...
... virtue and hap- piness of the lower classes of the people . But , I am not equally sure that the means employed for this very purpose may not be made a handle for stifling every principle of liberty and honour in the hearts of a free ...
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... with certain situations , may be highly dangerous . It is the soil in which the greatest virtues and the greatest vices take root . Where it has not strength to stop the torrent of dissolute manners , it gives it addis tional 10.
... with certain situations , may be highly dangerous . It is the soil in which the greatest virtues and the greatest vices take root . Where it has not strength to stop the torrent of dissolute manners , it gives it addis tional 10.
Σελίδα 28
... the more strictly they had been " observed , mankind must have sooner become " miserable . The remembrance of former times , " the greatness of their wisdom and virtue , would " conspire to heighten their distress ; and the " 28.
... the more strictly they had been " observed , mankind must have sooner become " miserable . The remembrance of former times , " the greatness of their wisdom and virtue , would " conspire to heighten their distress ; and the " 28.
Σελίδα 29
... with all their wisdom and virtue they would not be able to take any steps to prevent this distress . This is a species of fascination , of which it is difficult to form any conception . " under which the disorders of human passions " had ...
... with all their wisdom and virtue they would not be able to take any steps to prevent this distress . This is a species of fascination , of which it is difficult to form any conception . " under which the disorders of human passions " had ...
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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.