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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Side 13
... a pledge of the sincerity of his motives . But what proof has Mr. Whitbread ever given of his true and undissembled attachment to the same cause ? What sacrifices has he made , what fa- 13 I know nothing of Mr. Whitbread personally. ...
... a pledge of the sincerity of his motives . But what proof has Mr. Whitbread ever given of his true and undissembled attachment to the same cause ? What sacrifices has he made , what fa- 13 I know nothing of Mr. Whitbread personally. ...
Side 15
... true political economy , as innate ideas for a long time confused and perplexed all at- tempts at philosophy . It is an ignis fatuus , which can only beguile the thoughtless gazer , and lead him into bogs and quicksands , before he ...
... true political economy , as innate ideas for a long time confused and perplexed all at- tempts at philosophy . It is an ignis fatuus , which can only beguile the thoughtless gazer , and lead him into bogs and quicksands , before he ...
Side 36
... true as a general prin- ciple that the increase of population and the in- crease in the means of subsistence are necessa , rily disproportionate to each other , that the one is in a geometrical , the other is in an arithme- tical ratio ...
... true as a general prin- ciple that the increase of population and the in- crease in the means of subsistence are necessa , rily disproportionate to each other , that the one is in a geometrical , the other is in an arithme- tical ratio ...
Side 49
... true and only unanswerable objection against all such schemes is that very degree of happiness , virtue and improvement to which they are supposed to give rise . And I cannot agree with him in this because it is contrary to common sense ...
... true and only unanswerable objection against all such schemes is that very degree of happiness , virtue and improvement to which they are supposed to give rise . And I cannot agree with him in this because it is contrary to common sense ...
Side 70
... misery in the world , what you say would be true . Every thing would then go on as well , or indeed better than before . But this is impossible , because this increased cultivation , 70 from the poverty that has been found to prevail ...
... misery in the world , what you say would be true . Every thing would then go on as well , or indeed better than before . But this is impossible , because this increased cultivation , 70 from the poverty that has been found to prevail ...
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A Reply to the Essay on Population: By the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a Series ... William Hazlitt Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1807 |
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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 140 - O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame, To pay this debt of love but to a brother, How will she love, when the rich golden shaft Hath killed the flock of all affections else...
Side 358 - 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 81 - The most enthusiastic speculator cannot suppose a greater increase than this. In a few centuries it would make every acre of land in the island like a garden.
Side 122 - 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. These two laws ever since we have had any knowledge of mankind, appear to have been fixed laws of our nature; and, as we have not hitherto seen any alteration in them, we have no right to conclude that they will ever cease to be what they...
Side 378 - It very rarely happens that the nominal price of labour universally falls, but we well know that it frequently remains the same, while the nominal price of provisions has been gradually increasing.
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 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.
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 121 - 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.