An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions, Volum 2Roger Chew Weightman, Pennsylvania Avenue, 1809 |
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Side 5
... circumstance we take the distance of 4 years instead of 3 years , we shall probably be not far from the truth . And though undoubtedly the pe- riod will differ in different countries , yet it will not differ so much as we might at first ...
... circumstance we take the distance of 4 years instead of 3 years , we shall probably be not far from the truth . And though undoubtedly the pe- riod will differ in different countries , yet it will not differ so much as we might at first ...
Side 7
... circumstances peculiar to each country ; and particularly by the number of late marriages . In all countries the second and third marriages alone form a most important considera- tion , and materially influence the average propor- tions ...
... circumstances peculiar to each country ; and particularly by the number of late marriages . In all countries the second and third marriages alone form a most important considera- tion , and materially influence the average propor- tions ...
Side 11
... circumstances here supposed . The reason why the proportion of births to weddings increases is , that the births occurring in the order of na- ture considerably prior to the marriages which result from them , their increase will affect ...
... circumstances here supposed . The reason why the proportion of births to weddings increases is , that the births occurring in the order of na- ture considerably prior to the marriages which result from them , their increase will affect ...
Side 12
... circumstance that the average age of marriage may often be considera- bly earlier than the mean age of death , the general con clusion also which Dr. Price draws in this note does not appear to be strictly correct . 1 The reader will be ...
... circumstance that the average age of marriage may often be considera- bly earlier than the mean age of death , the general con clusion also which Dr. Price draws in this note does not appear to be strictly correct . 1 The reader will be ...
Side 18
... circumstance of illegitimate births ; and the marriages will then be to the births as 1 to 4 , to the deaths as 1 to 3 . Corrected for second and third marriages , the In America the expectation of life would , upon the same principles ...
... circumstance of illegitimate births ; and the marriages will then be to the births as 1 to 4 , to the deaths as 1 to 3 . Corrected for second and third marriages , the In America the expectation of life would , upon the same principles ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 127 - Godwin to name to me any check, that in past ages has contributed to keep down the population to the level of the means of subsistence, that does not fairly come under some form of vice or misery ; except indeed the check of moral...
Side 177 - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and also...
Side 374 - ... are easily heated to outrage. Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness. It shows that something is wrong in the system of Government that injures the felicity by which society is to be preserved.
Side 325 - The method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action to promote or diminish the general happiness.
Side 497 - On the whole, therefore, though our future prospects respecting the mitigation of the evils arising from the principle of population may not be so bright as we could wish, yet they are far from being entirely disheartening, and by no means preclude that gradual and progressive improvement in human society which, before the late wild speculations on the subject, was the object of rational expectation.
Side 423 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Side 74 - The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction; and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and ten thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the...
Side 241 - ... of the home market ; as every bushel of corn, which is exported by means of the bounty, and which would not have been exported without the bounty, would have remained in the home market to increase the consumption, and to lower the price of that commodity. The corn bounty, it is to be observed, as well as every other bounty upon exportation, imposes two different taxes upon the people ; first, the tax which they are obliged to contribute, in order to pay the bounty ; and secondly, the tax which...
Side 330 - ... abstaining from marriage till we are in a condition to support a family, with a perfectly moral conduct during that period, is the strict line of duty; and when revelation is taken into the question, this duty undoubtedly receives very powerful confirmation.
Side 297 - Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments employed by the Deity in admonishing us to avoid any mode of conduct which is not suited to our being, and will consequently injure our happiness.