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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Σελίδα 58
... excess it would lead , and where it would naturally stop . Mr. Mal- thus , to make good his reasoning , must suppose a miracle to take place ; that after population has begun to increase excessively , no incon- venience is felt from it ...
... excess it would lead , and where it would naturally stop . Mr. Mal- thus , to make good his reasoning , must suppose a miracle to take place ; that after population has begun to increase excessively , no incon- venience is felt from it ...
Σελίδα 59
... excess of virtue and happiness , its inconveni- ences would return , and people would no longer be perfectly virtuous and happy : that is , the old checks of a certain degree of vice and misery would come into play again , and a less ...
... excess of virtue and happiness , its inconveni- ences would return , and people would no longer be perfectly virtuous and happy : that is , the old checks of a certain degree of vice and misery would come into play again , and a less ...
Σελίδα 62
... EXCESS . SIR , MR . Malthus's argument against a state of un- limited improvement , of perfect wisdom , virtue and happiness , from the vice , misery , and mad- ness inseparable from such a state would , if ad- mitted , be an effectual ...
... EXCESS . SIR , MR . Malthus's argument against a state of un- limited improvement , of perfect wisdom , virtue and happiness , from the vice , misery , and mad- ness inseparable from such a state would , if ad- mitted , be an effectual ...
Σελίδα 63
... excess , and aiming at more than is practicable . But if we allow that improvement is an evil in the abstract , and that the greater the improvement , the greater the mischief , that the actual and complete suc- cess of all such schemes ...
... excess , and aiming at more than is practicable . But if we allow that improvement is an evil in the abstract , and that the greater the improvement , the greater the mischief , that the actual and complete suc- cess of all such schemes ...
Σελίδα 86
... excess , than the present population of two millions ? Would not the same sense of inconvenience , the same dread of poverty , the same regard to the comforts of life , operate in the same way and just as much upon every individual of ...
... excess , than the present population of two millions ? Would not the same sense of inconvenience , the same dread of poverty , the same regard to the comforts of life , operate in the same way and just as much upon every individual of ...
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Σελίδα 285 - A man 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 do 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. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
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 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 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Σελίδα 290 - 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.
Σελίδα 58 - ... swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless, like that pygmean race...
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 291 - The report of a provision for all that come fills the hall with numerous claimants. The order and harmony of the feast is disturbed, the plenty that before reigned is changed into scarcity; and the happiness of the guests is destroyed by the spectacle of misery and dependence in every...