An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, Τόμος 1 |
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... common diseases and epidemics , wars , plague , and famine . On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed under the heads of preventive and positive checks , it will appear that they are all resolvable ...
... common diseases and epidemics , wars , plague , and famine . On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed under the heads of preventive and positive checks , it will appear that they are all resolvable ...
Σελίδα 22
... common view ; and it may be difficult even for the most attentive observer to calculate its periods . Yet that , in the generality of old states , and the mode of their operation . some such vibration 22 Book I. ESSAY ON.
... common view ; and it may be difficult even for the most attentive observer to calculate its periods . Yet that , in the generality of old states , and the mode of their operation . some such vibration 22 Book I. ESSAY ON.
Σελίδα 25
... more than any other contributed to conceal this oscillation from common view is , the difference between the nominal and real price of labor . It very rarely Of the general checks to population , happens that the Chap . II . 25 POPULATION .
... more than any other contributed to conceal this oscillation from common view is , the difference between the nominal and real price of labor . It very rarely Of the general checks to population , happens that the Chap . II . 25 POPULATION .
Σελίδα 36
... common , and the too carly union of the sexes in general , would tend to pre- vent the females from being prolific . Instances of a plurality of wives were found more frequent than of a single wife ; but what is extraordinary , Mr ...
... common , and the too carly union of the sexes in general , would tend to pre- vent the females from being prolific . Instances of a plurality of wives were found more frequent than of a single wife ; but what is extraordinary , Mr ...
Σελίδα 47
... common practice among the Natchez of changing their wives , adds , unless they have children by them ; a proof , that these marriages were in general unfruitful , which may be accounted for from the libertine lives of the women before ...
... common practice among the Natchez of changing their wives , adds , unless they have children by them ; a proof , that these marriages were in general unfruitful , which may be accounted for from the libertine lives of the women before ...
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Σελίδα 114 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Σελίδα 18 - ... himself possessed ? Does he even feel secure that, should he have a large family, his utmost exertions can save them from rags and squalid poverty, and their consequent degradation in the community? And may he not be reduced to the grating necessity of forfeiting his independence, and of being obliged to the sparing hand of charity for support? These considerations are calculated to prevent, and certainly do prevent, a great number of persons in all civilized nations from pursuing the dictate...
Σελίδα 14 - 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 13 - In the next twenty-five years, it is impossible to suppose that the produce could be quadrupled. It would be contrary to all our knowledge of the properties of land.
Σελίδα 6 - The effects of this check on man are more complicated. Impelled to the increase of his species by an equally powerful instinct, reason interrupts his career, and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of support.
Σελίδα 21 - Promiscuous intercourse, unnatural passions, violations of the marriage bed, and improper arts to conceal the consequences of irregular connections, are preventive checks that clearly come under the head of vice.
Σελίδα 4 - To enter fully into this question, and to enumerate all the causes that have hitherto influenced human improvement, would be much beyond the power of an individual. The principal object of the present essay is to examine the effects of one great cause intimately united with the very nature of man, which, though it has been constantly and powerfully operating since the commencement of society, has been little noticed by the writers who have treated this subject.
Σελίδα 4 - The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr. Franklin that there is 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.
Σελίδα 10 - ... population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twentyfive years, or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Σελίδα 10 - A thousand millions are just as easily doubled every twenty-five years by the power of population as a thousand. But the food to support the increase from the greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility.