The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Volum 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1840 - 544 sider |
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The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Volum 1 Archibald Alison Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |
The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Volum 1 Archibald Alison Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |
The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Volum 1 Archibald Alison Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |
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Populære avsnitt
Side 42 - In the first twenty-five years, the population could be twenty-two millions, and the food being also doubled, the means of subsistence would be equal to this increase. In the next twenty-five years, the population would be forty-four millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirty-three millions.
Side 74 - ... the song of joy is no more heard among the branches ; and the earth is strewed with that foliage which once bespoke the magnificence of summer. Whatever may be the passions which society has awakened, we pause amid this apparent desolation of nature. We sit down in the lodge " of the wayfaring man in the wilderness," and we feel that all we witness is the emblem of our own fate.
Side 41 - Let us suppose that the yearly additions which might be made to the former average produce, instead of decreasing, which they certainly would do, were to remain the same; and that the produce of this island might be increased, every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. 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 41 - 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. The improvement of the barren parts would be a work of time and...
Side 42 - In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for ever and be greater than any assignable quantity; yet still the power of population being in every period so much superior, the increase of the human species can only be kept down to the level of the means of subsistence by the constant operation of the strong law of necessity, acting as a check upon the greater power.
Side 191 - Ten or twenty workmen are more or less intoxicated every Saturday, and for the most of Sunday ; every farthing which can be spared is too often converted into ardent spirits. The same individuals who, a year before, were reduced to pawn their last shreds of furniture to procure subsistence, recklessly throw away the surplus earnings of more prosperous times in the lowest debauchery. The warnings of religion, the dictates of prudence, the means of instruction, the lessons of adversity, are alike overwhelmed...
Side 520 - ... Population, 1840, i. 520 : ' It is in the midst of this prodigious manufacturing population that the human race advances with alarming rapidity, and shoals of human beings are ushered into the world without any adequate provision existing for their comfortable maintenance. Such is the improvidence, the recklessness, and the profligacy which characterize the great bulk of the urban population in all the great cities of the empire, that the rate of increase bears no proportion to the permanent...
Side 41 - ... in proportion as cultivation extended, the additions that could yearly be made to the former average produce must be gradually and regularly diminishing.
Side 253 - In what constitutes the real happiness of human life, they are in no respect inferior to those who would seem so much above them. In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.