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 pages |
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... for the attention which our author's reasonings have excited among thinking men , except from a habit of extreme abstraction and over - refined specula tion , unsupported by actual observation or a general knowledge 18.
... for the attention which our author's reasonings have excited among thinking men , except from a habit of extreme abstraction and over - refined specula tion , unsupported by actual observation or a general knowledge 18.
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... actual observation or a general knowledge of practical subjects , in con- sequence of which the mind is dazzled and con- founded by any striking fact which thwarts its previous conclusions . There is also in some minds a low and narrow ...
... actual observation or a general knowledge of practical subjects , in con- sequence of which the mind is dazzled and con- founded by any striking fact which thwarts its previous conclusions . There is also in some minds a low and narrow ...
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... actual population is great or sinall ; that is , whether it is stopped only from having reached the utmost limits pre- scribed by nature , or whether it has been starved and crushed down long before that period by po- sitive , arbitrary ...
... actual population is great or sinall ; that is , whether it is stopped only from having reached the utmost limits pre- scribed by nature , or whether it has been starved and crushed down long before that period by po- sitive , arbitrary ...
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... actual quantity , on which the measure of our safety depended , might be attended with the most ruinous conse- quences , and ought to be looked upon with hor ror . I think , Sir , this description of the tendency and complexion of Mr ...
... actual quantity , on which the measure of our safety depended , might be attended with the most ruinous conse- quences , and ought to be looked upon with hor ror . I think , Sir , this description of the tendency and complexion of Mr ...
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... actual vice and misery . Population was in fact the great devil , the untamed Beelzebub that was only kept chained down by vice and misery , and that if it were once let loose from these re straints , it would go forth , and ravage the ...
... actual vice and misery . Population was in fact the great devil , the untamed Beelzebub that was only kept chained down by vice and misery , and that if it were once let loose from these re straints , it would go forth , and ravage the ...
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Page 344 - 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.
Page 210 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 117 - 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.
Page 80 - 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...
Page 80 - ... 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.
Page 132 - ... in civil society to human institutions. Political regulations, and the established administration of property are with him the fruitful sources of all evil, the hotbeds of all the crimes that degrade mankind. Were this really a true state of the case, it would not seem...
Page 133 - They are alike hostile to intellectual improvement. The other vices of envy, malice, and revenge are their inseparable companions. In a state of society where men lived in the midst of plenty and where all shared alike the...
Page 81 - 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.
Page 166 - It is the hope of bettering our condition, and the fear of want, rather than want itself, that is the best stimulus to industry ; and its most constant and best directed efforts will almost invariably be found among a class of people above the class of the wretchedly poor.
Page 278 - 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 does 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.