An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions, 1권Roger Chew Weightman, Pennsylvania Avenue, 1809 |
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... average produce of the island could be doubled in the first twenty - five years , it will be allowing pro- bably a greater increase than could with reason be expected . the increase of population and food . In the next 10 Book I. ESSAY ON.
... average produce of the island could be doubled in the first twenty - five years , it will be allowing pro- bably a greater increase than could with reason be expected . the increase of population and food . In the next 10 Book I. ESSAY ON.
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... average produce must be gradually and regularly dimi- nishing . That we may be the better able to com- pare the increase of population and food , let us make a supposition , which , without pretending to accuracy , is clearly more ...
... average produce must be gradually and regularly dimi- nishing . That we may be the better able to com- pare the increase of population and food , let us make a supposition , which , without pretending to accuracy , is clearly more ...
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... average state of the earth , the means of subsistence , under circumstances the most favorable to human industry , could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio . The necessary effects of these two ...
... average state of the earth , the means of subsistence , under circumstances the most favorable to human industry , could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio . The necessary effects of these two ...
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... average supply of food , that every little deficiency from unfavorable weather , or other causes , occasions distress . Particular times , when the inhabitants seemed to be in great want , are mentioned as not uncommon , and at these ...
... average supply of food , that every little deficiency from unfavorable weather , or other causes , occasions distress . Particular times , when the inhabitants seemed to be in great want , are mentioned as not uncommon , and at these ...
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... average population of the American nations is , with few exceptions , on a level with the average quantity of food , which in the present state of their industry they can obtain . 1 Charlevoix , N. Fr. tom . iii . p . 260 . 2 The ...
... average population of the American nations is , with few exceptions , on a level with the average quantity of food , which in the present state of their industry they can obtain . 1 Charlevoix , N. Fr. tom . iii . p . 260 . 2 The ...
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3 페이지 - The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds.
112 페이지 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
4 페이지 - The effects of this check on man are more complicated. Impelled to the increase of his species by an equally powerful instinct, reason interrupts his career, and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world, for whom he cannot provide the means of support.
11 페이지 - In the next twenty-five years, it is impossible to suppose that the produce could be quadrupled. It would be contrary to all our knowledge of the properties of land.
19 페이지 - Promiscuous intercourse, unnatural passions, violations of the marriage bed, and improper arts to conceal the consequences of irregular connections, are preventive checks that clearly come under the head of vice.
2 페이지 - Franklin that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance...
28 페이지 - Population invariably increases where the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks. 3. These checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery.
13 페이지 - 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...
21 페이지 - ... naturally unhealthy, or subject to a great mortality, from whatever cause it may arise, the preventive check will prevail very little. In those countries on the contrary, which are naturally healthy, and where the preventive check is found to prevail with considerable force, the positive check will prevail very little, or the mortality be very small.
12 페이지 - ... might be increased every twentyfive years by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic speculator cannot suppose a greater increase than this. In a few centuries it would make every acre of land in the island like a garden.