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Side 45
... misery and crime . " * Is there anything in the ope- ration of the laws of nature upon society to warrant * " In this view , the labouring population are regarded as so many animals , with definite never - increasing wants , and doomed ...
... misery and crime . " * Is there anything in the ope- ration of the laws of nature upon society to warrant * " In this view , the labouring population are regarded as so many animals , with definite never - increasing wants , and doomed ...
Side 56
... misery , or the fear of misery , by a large portion of mankind . ” " That population has this constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence , and that it is kept to its necessary level by these causes , will sufficiently ...
... misery , or the fear of misery , by a large portion of mankind . ” " That population has this constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence , and that it is kept to its necessary level by these causes , will sufficiently ...
Side 62
... misery there may be , and is , more or less extensively prevailing , at all times ; but a vast , universal , and constantly in- creasing failure of supplies , as the world grows fuller of inhabitants , is certainly a phenomenon of which ...
... misery there may be , and is , more or less extensively prevailing , at all times ; but a vast , universal , and constantly in- creasing failure of supplies , as the world grows fuller of inhabitants , is certainly a phenomenon of which ...
Side 64
... misery . " " Every cause , " he says , " whether arising from vice or misery , which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human existence . ” Thus , the tendency is evil , and the checks which restrain the ...
... misery . " " Every cause , " he says , " whether arising from vice or misery , which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human existence . ” Thus , the tendency is evil , and the checks which restrain the ...
Side 109
... misery of the labouring classes of society in all old states . " Mr. Mill expresses the same idea in more dogmatic terms . He says , " that population has a tendency to increase faster than in most places capital has actually increased ...
... misery of the labouring classes of society in all old states . " Mr. Mill expresses the same idea in more dogmatic terms . He says , " that population has a tendency to increase faster than in most places capital has actually increased ...
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Population and Capital: ... a course of lectures delivered before the ... sir George Kettilby Rickards Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1854 |
Population and Capital, a Course of Lectures George Kettilby Rickards Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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Side 207 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Side 6 - Hints to Mothers on the Management of their Health during the Period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room : With an Exposure of Popular Errors in connexion with those subjects, &c.
Side 14 - Thomson's Tables of Interest, at Three, Four, Four-and-a-Half, and Five per Cent., from One Pound to Ten Thousand, and from 1 to 365 Days, in a regular progression of single Days ; with Interest at all the above Rates, from One to Twelve Months, and from One to Ten Years.
Side 16 - Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy; comprising such. subjects as are most immediately connected with Housekeeping : As, The Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting them — A description of the various articles of Furniture, with the nature of their Materials — Duties of Servants— &c.
Side 7 - A General Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical ; forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE 8vo. 31s. 6d. M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Side 6 - Bourne. -— A Treatise on the Steam Engine, in its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation. and Railways.
Side 55 - Necessity, that imperious all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law. And the race of man cannot, by any efforts of reason, escape from it.
Side 12 - Kirby and Spence's Introduction to Entomology ; or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects : Comprising an Account of Noxious and Useful Insects, of their Metamorphoses, Food, Stratagems, Habitations, Societies, Motions, Noises, Hybernation, Instinct, &c.
Side 60 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, 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 10 - AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PALEOZOIC FOSSILS of CORNWALL, DEVON, and WEST SOMERSET; observed in the course of the Ordnance Geological Survey of that District. By JOHN PHILLIPS, FRS FGS &c.