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 sider |
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... tion , as well as that of the public ; and , as the authority of Mr. Malthus has often been referred to , and has great weight with many people on this subject , it may not be amiss to inquire , how far the reputation which that ...
... tion , as well as that of the public ; and , as the authority of Mr. Malthus has often been referred to , and has great weight with many people on this subject , it may not be amiss to inquire , how far the reputation which that ...
Side 9
... tion , the small number of great towns , and the remains of ancient customs , tend to strengthen , to forward , to give consistency to , and secure the good effects of education ? Or will Mr. Whitbread say that he can supply the place ...
... tion , the small number of great towns , and the remains of ancient customs , tend to strengthen , to forward , to give consistency to , and secure the good effects of education ? Or will Mr. Whitbread say that he can supply the place ...
Side 10
... tion quicken faster , and spread wider for having this new channel opened to it ? Will a smatter- ing in books , and the current pamphlets of the day tend to quench and smother the flame of the passions , or will it add fuel to them ? I ...
... tion quicken faster , and spread wider for having this new channel opened to it ? Will a smatter- ing in books , and the current pamphlets of the day tend to quench and smother the flame of the passions , or will it add fuel to them ? I ...
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... reasonings have excited among thinking men , except from a habit of extreme abstraction and over - refined specula- ་ tion , unsupported by actual observation or a general 18 Mr. Malthus has for some time past been lord ...
... reasonings have excited among thinking men , except from a habit of extreme abstraction and over - refined specula- ་ tion , unsupported by actual observation or a general 18 Mr. Malthus has for some time past been lord ...
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... tion , unsupported by actual observation or a general knowledge of practical subjects , in con- sequence of which the mind is dazzled and con- founded by any striking fact which thwarts its previous conclusions . There is also in some ...
... tion , unsupported by actual observation or a general knowledge of practical subjects , in con- sequence of which the mind is dazzled and con- founded by any striking fact which thwarts its previous conclusions . There is also in some ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...