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" 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... "
An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, A View of Its Past and Present ... - Page 34
by Thomas Robert Malthus - 1817
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1803 - 572 pages
...i. Population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence. ' 3. These checks, and the ch.cks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its effects on a level with the means uf subsistence, arc all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery. ' The first ef these propositions...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 2

Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...checks; and 3, that these checks, 1. That population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence. and the checks which repress the superior power of...vice, and misery. The first of these propositions is obvious ; the second and third are established by a review of the past and present state of society....
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Dissertations on Man, Philosophical, Physiological, and Political: In Answer ...

Thomas Jarrold - Malthusianism - 1806 - 420 pages
...subsistence increase, unless prevented, by some very powerful and obvious checks. 3. These cheeky 9nd the checks which repress the superior power of population, and .keep its effects on a.;4eve;l with the means of subsistencCj are all resolvable into moral restraint, .vice, and misery."*;;...
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The Oxford review; or, Literary censor, Volume 1

734 pages
...powerful and obvious checks. 3. These checks, whjch repress the superior power of population, ajid keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence,...resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery. The truth of the first of these propositions is not to be questioned. Dr. Jarrold observes, that on perusing...
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The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 5

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks; and that these checks, and the checks which repress the superior...resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery. Under whatever denomination the causes which adjust population to the circumstances of the country...
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An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future ..., Volume 1

Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...population, &c. means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks.1 3. These checks, and the checks which repress the...means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restaint, vice, and misery. The first of these propositions scarcely needs illustration. The second...
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The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 5

William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks: and that these checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its i nWb on a level with the meaus of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and...
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Supplement to the Rural Sports

William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 pages
...augments, when Food is plentiful, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious Checks." Thirdly, " The Checks which repress the superior Power of POPULATION,...resolvable, into MORAL RESTRAINT, VICE, and MISERY." MORAL RESTRAINT, or the Determination to defer or decline Mztrimony, from a Consideration of the Inconveniences...
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Rural Sports

William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1813 - 820 pages
...augments, when Food is plentiful, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious Checks." Thirdly, "The Checks which repress the superior Power of POPULATION,...resolvable, into MORAL RESTRAINT, VICE, and MISERY." MORAL RESTRAINT, or the Determination to defer or decline Matrimony, from a Consideration of the Inconveniences...
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Niles' National Register, Volume 1

1816 - 514 pages
...means of subsistence. 2d. Population always increases where the means of subsistence increase. 3d, Tlie checks which repress the superior power of population,...resolvable into moral restraint, vice and misery." Tlie first of these proposi'ions is passed over as needing no illustration. To establish the two last,...
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