...plausible truths ; and,. like the devil, he calls upon God to witness that they are so. He says, Jf ive be intemperate in eating and drinking, we are disordered...fail to commit acts of which we afterwards repent. These, we know, are unquestionable truths ; but we know also, that the unrestrained indulgence of the...

...support, we have been prevented from attending to the clear dictates of reason and nature on this subject. Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments...and will consequently injure our happiness. If we are intemperate in eating and drinking, our health is disordered ; if we indulge the transports of...

...support, we have been prevented from attending to the clear dictates of reason and nature on this subject. Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments...mode of conduct which is not suited to our being, kand will consequently injure our happiness. If we are intemperate in eating and drinking, our health...

...which natural and moral evils contribute to a process of preparation for the future life. They are 'the instruments employed by the Deity in admonishing...suited to our being, and will consequently injure our happiness'.*1 If, for example, both population and food were to increase in the same proportion, there...

...produces." 2 But then, contraception seems to be the answer, 13 however not for Malthus. For him the 'natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments...being, and will consequently injure our happiness'. 14 So Malthus combines the old with the new - the traditional teachings of the church with those of...

...support, we have been prevented from attending to the clear dictates of reason and nature on this subject. Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments...Deity in admonishing us to avoid any mode of conduct 151 152 The Principle of Population which is not suited to our being, and will consequently injure...

...This is a theme taken up in Malthus, who regards goodness as leading to pleasure and evil to pain. Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments...fail to commit acts of which we afterwards repent (Malthus 1992: 208). And if we multiply too fast, we die miserably of poverty and contagious diseases....

...upon themselves the miseries associated with overpopulation, which God applies as moral correctives. "Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments...being, and will consequently injure our happiness." As overeating makes one ill and anger leads to acts we later regret, so overpopulation produces poverty...

...support, we have been prevented from attending to the clear dictates of reason and nature on this subject. Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments...Deity in admonishing us to avoid any mode of conduct 151 152 The Principle of Population which is not suited to our being, and will consequently injure...