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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... mankind quite different from any " thing known at present . Nay , though some " extraordinary method of supporting them " might possibly be found out , yet if there was £ 6 no bound to the increase of mankind , which " would be the case ...
... mankind quite different from any " thing known at present . Nay , though some " extraordinary method of supporting them " might possibly be found out , yet if there was £ 6 no bound to the increase of mankind , which " would be the case ...
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... mankind must have been happy ; " the earth must have been a paradise in the li- " teral sense , as the greatest part of it must have " been turned into delightful and fruitful gar- " dens . But when the dreadful time should at " last ...
... mankind must have been happy ; " the earth must have been a paradise in the li- " teral sense , as the greatest part of it must have " been turned into delightful and fruitful gar- " dens . But when the dreadful time should at " last ...
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... mankind are " planted in our frame , to answer the best ends for the happiness both of the individuals and " of the species . Shall we be obliged to contra- dict such a wise order ? Shall we be laid un- " der the necessity of acting ...
... mankind are " planted in our frame , to answer the best ends for the happiness both of the individuals and " of the species . Shall we be obliged to contra- dict such a wise order ? Shall we be laid un- " der the necessity of acting ...
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... mankind be reduced to the same " calamitous condition as at present . " Such a melancholy situation in consequence " merely of the want of provisions , is in truth 66 more unnatural than all their present cala- " mities . Supposing men ...
... mankind be reduced to the same " calamitous condition as at present . " Such a melancholy situation in consequence " merely of the want of provisions , is in truth 66 more unnatural than all their present cala- " mities . Supposing men ...
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... increase of mankind are " three of these original constitutions . To these " determinations , human affairs , and the circum , " stances of all other animals , must be adapted 30 "under which the disorders of human passions ...
... increase of mankind are " three of these original constitutions . To these " determinations , human affairs , and the circum , " stances of all other animals , must be adapted 30 "under which the disorders of human passions ...
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Page 285 - A man 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 do 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. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
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 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 - ... 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.
Page 290 - 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.
Page 58 - ... swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless, like that pygmean race...
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 291 - The report of a provision for all that come fills the hall with numerous claimants. The order and harmony of the feast is disturbed, the plenty that before reigned is changed into scarcity; and the happiness of the guests is destroyed by the spectacle of misery and dependence in every...