The Law of Population: A Treatise, in Six Books; in Disproof of the Superfecundity of Human Beings, and Developing of the Real Principle of Their Increase, Volume 1 |
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... reference to the present number of human beings , the earth is sufficiently productive ; and , if we must carry our views into futurity , whether its potential produce , when fully developed , will still suffice for the numbers whom the ...
... reference to the present number of human beings , the earth is sufficiently productive ; and , if we must carry our views into futurity , whether its potential produce , when fully developed , will still suffice for the numbers whom the ...
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... understanding of mankind , are im- pugned . It is their misapplication , in reference to the Mandeville's Essay on Charity , p . 368 . subject about to be considered , and their consequent de- Chap . I. ] 13 INTRODUCTORY .
... understanding of mankind , are im- pugned . It is their misapplication , in reference to the Mandeville's Essay on Charity , p . 368 . subject about to be considered , and their consequent de- Chap . I. ] 13 INTRODUCTORY .
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... reference to it , and new virtues and vices are promulgated in conformity with the new theory of population . Yet , notwithstanding this active coalition in its favour , I venture to prognosticate that its triumphs will be short ; the ...
... reference to it , and new virtues and vices are promulgated in conformity with the new theory of population . Yet , notwithstanding this active coalition in its favour , I venture to prognosticate that its triumphs will be short ; the ...
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... partial and cruel operation of which , as well as the gross mistakes manifested in reference to their supposed effects , will be matter of distinct con- sideration . Meantime they seem to triumph in the very 18 [ Book I. INTRODUCTORY .
... partial and cruel operation of which , as well as the gross mistakes manifested in reference to their supposed effects , will be matter of distinct con- sideration . Meantime they seem to triumph in the very 18 [ Book I. INTRODUCTORY .
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... it would fain destroy ; while the views it takes of the rights of poverty and distress , and the duties it ordains , in reference to them , are as opposite to those held by the latter , as light is to 28 [ Book I. INTRODUCTORY .
... it would fain destroy ; while the views it takes of the rights of poverty and distress , and the duties it ordains , in reference to them , are as opposite to those held by the latter , as light is to 28 [ Book I. INTRODUCTORY .
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Page 29 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 20 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end, of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world, all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 155 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 264 - And when I am king, as king I will be,— ALL: God save your majesty! CADE: I thank you, good people: there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.
Page 248 - The Germans abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of hunting, employed in pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and then accused the scantiness and sterility of a country that refused to maintain the multitude of its inhabitants.
Page 453 - Besides foreign Protestants, several persons from England and Scotland resorted to Carolina after the peace. But of all other countries none has furnished the province with so many inhabitants as Ireland. In the northern counties of that kingdom the spirit of emigration seized the people to such a degree, that it threatened almost a total depopulation. Such multitudes of husbandmen...
Page 350 - ... 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 part of the hall, and by the clamorous importunity of those who are justly enraged at not finding the provision which they had been taught to expect.
Page 127 - There cannot be a clearer demonstration of any thing than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land and poor in all the comforts of life; whom nature, having furnished as liberally as any other people with the materials of plenty, ie, a fruitful soil, apt to produce in abundance what might serve for food, raiment, and delight; yet, for want of improving it by labour, have not one hundredth part of the conveniences we enjoy. And a king of a large and fruitful territory there...
Page 70 - This power of increasing in these animals exceeds our idea, as it would, in a very short time, outstrip all calculation. A single herring, if suffered to multiply unmolested and undiminished for twenty years, would show a progeny greater in bulk than ten such globes as that we live upon.
Page 364 - If the parents desert their child they ought to be made answerable for the crime. The infant is, comparatively speaking, of no value to the society, as others will immediately supply its place.