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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... progress of cultivation , the distress for want of food would be constantly pressing on all mankind more than it does at present . Let us suppose that men remain just as vicious , as imprudent , as regard- less of their own interests ...
... progress of cultivation , the distress for want of food would be constantly pressing on all mankind more than it does at present . Let us suppose that men remain just as vicious , as imprudent , as regard- less of their own interests ...
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... progress of cultivation from the present moment to the time when it should have reached its ut- most limits , would the distress for want of food be greater than it is at present . In the mean time , the number of mankind , and ...
... progress of cultivation from the present moment to the time when it should have reached its ut- most limits , would the distress for want of food be greater than it is at present . In the mean time , the number of mankind , and ...
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... progress . He has rendered his paradox in some measure palatable to the reader , by introducing it as one branch of his answer to Condorcet , and others of the same school , herein imitating the policy of the house of commons , who ...
... progress . He has rendered his paradox in some measure palatable to the reader , by introducing it as one branch of his answer to Condorcet , and others of the same school , herein imitating the policy of the house of commons , who ...
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... progress of agriculture , civiliza- tion , and the populousness which would follow , ( no matter to what extent , nor by whom it is brought about , whether it is projected by a junto of philosophers , or decided upon in a com- mittee of ...
... progress of agriculture , civiliza- tion , and the populousness which would follow , ( no matter to what extent , nor by whom it is brought about , whether it is projected by a junto of philosophers , or decided upon in a com- mittee of ...
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... progress of agri- culture , our author concludes that his readers will forget that that , which is so often repre- sented as an evil , can ever be a good , and therefore peremptorily adds , in defiance of his own statement , that in ...
... progress of agri- culture , our author concludes that his readers will forget that that , which is so often repre- sented as an evil , can ever be a good , and therefore peremptorily adds , in defiance of his own statement , that in ...
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Page 356 - 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 222 - 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 122 - 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 82 - 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 82 - ... 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 144 - ... 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 145 - 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 83 - 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 178 - 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 288 - 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.