Population and Capital: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford in 1853-4Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 - 259 σελίδες |
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Adam Smith advance afford agricultural animals argument arts Author capital cause checks civilisation classes cloth consequence consumed crease cultivation diminishing doctrine duction earth Edinburgh Review effect employed employment England Engravings Essay evil fact famine Fcap greater History human fecundity Illustrations improved increase of population industry inhabitants instance J. S. Mill labour land Lecture less limit Malthus Malthusian mankind manufacturing marriage means of subsistence ment Mill millions misery moral restraint morocco multiply nations numbers observe operation period physical Plates political economy popu Portrait Post 8vo present price 58 principle of population production progress prolific proportion Providence ratio refer regard result revised ROBERT SOUTHEY says Second Edition social society soil species Square crown 8vo square miles superfecundity supply suppose tendency to increase theory tion tribes vols waste wealth wealth of nations whole Wood Engravings Woodcuts writers
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Σελίδα 55 - Necessity, that imperious all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law. And the race of man cannot, by any efforts of reason, escape from it.
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Σελίδα 55 - There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as, for instance, with fennel : and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might, in a few ages, be replenished from one nation only, as, for instance, with Englishmen.
Σελίδα 54 - The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it.
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