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 (Google eBook)

T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus, G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

Ward, Lock and Company, 1890 - Population - 614 pages

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Contents

• BOOK I: 1
• Food t II Of the general Checks to Population and the Mode of their Operation: 7
• Of the Checks to Population in the lowest Stage of Human Society: 15
• Of the Checks to Population among the American Indians: 20
• Of the Checks to Population in the Islands of the South Sea: 37
• Of the Checks to Population among the ancient Inhabitants of the North of Europe: 52
• Of the Checks to Population among modern Pastoral Nations: 67
• Of the Checks to Population in different Parts of Africa: 80
• Of the Checks to Population in Siberia Northern and Southern: 91
• Of the Checks to Population in the Turkish Dominions and Persia: 99
• Of the Checks to Population in Indostan and Tibet: 105
• Of the Checks to Population in China and Japan: 113
• Of the Checks to Population among the Greeks: 127
• Of the Checks to Population among the Romans: 133
• BOOK II: 142
• Of the Checks to Population in Sweden: 152
• Of the Checks to Population in Russia: 164
• Of the Cheeks to Population in the middle Parts of Europe: 176
• Of the Checks to Population in Switzerland: 185
• Of the Checks to Population in France: 199
• Of the Checks to Population in France continued: 211
• Of the Checks to Population in England: 219
• Of the Checks to Population in England continued: 234
• Of the Checks to Population in Scotland and Ireland: 249
• CHAP PACB XI On the Fruitfulness of Marriages: 260
• Effects of Epidemics on Registers of Births Deaths and Marriages: 276
• General Deductions from the preceding View of Society: 285
• BOOK III: 297
• Of Systems of Equality Godwin: 306
• Of Systems of Equality continued: 318
• Of Emigration: 324
• Of PoorLaws: 332
• Of PoorLaws continued: 342
• Of PoorLaws continued: 350
• Of the Agricultural System: 362
• Of the Commercial System: 371
• Of Systems of Agriculture and Commerce combined: 378
• Of CornLaws Bounties upon Exportation: 387
• Of CornLaws Restrictions upon Importation: 400
• Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor: 415
• General Observations: 425
• BOOK IV: 440
• Of moral Restraint and our Obligation to practise this Virtue: 443
• Of the Effects which would result to Society from the Prevalence of Moral Restraint: 448
• Of the only effectual Mode of Improving the Condition of the Poor: 455
• Objections to this Mode considered: 461
• Of the Consequences of pursuing the opposite Mode: 463
• Effects of the Knowledge of the principal Cause of Poverty on Civil Liberty: 471
• Continuation of the same Subject: 481
• Plan of the gradual Abolition of the PoorLaws proposed: 484
• Of the Modes of correcting the prevailing Opinions on Population: 493
• Of the Direction of our Charity: 499
• Different Plans of improving the Condition of the Poor considered: 506
• Continuation of the same Subject: 517
• Of the Necessity of general Principles on this Subject: 527
• Of our rational Expectations respecting the future Improvement of Society: 537
• APPENDIX S INDEX: 588

Popular passages

Page 2 - The race of plants, and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law. And the race of man cannot, by any efforts of reason, escape from it.‎

Page 7 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, 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 617 - HAYDN'S DICTIONARY; OF DATES, relating to all Ages and Nations. For Universal Reference. Edited by BENJAMIN VINCENT, Assistant Secretary and Keeper of the. Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain ; and Revised for the Use of American Readers.‎

Page 52 - 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.‎

Page 2 - 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 with Englishmen.1 This is incontrovertibly true.‎

Page 5 - When acre has been added to acre' till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession. This is a fund, which, from the nature of all soils, instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing. But population, could it be supplied with food, would go on with unexhausted vigour; and the increase of one period would furnish the power of a greater increase the next, and this without any limit.‎

Page xxvi - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances • favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of a new species. Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work...‎

Page 501 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...‎

Page xxvi - I soon perceived that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants. But how selection could be applied to organisms living in a state of nature remained for some time a mystery to me.‎

Page 3 - By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating check on population from the difficulty of subsistence. This difficulty must fall somewhere and must necessarily be severely felt by a large portion of mankind.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: 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
• Authors: T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus, G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Ward, Lock and Company, 1890
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Nov 2, 2005
• Length: 614 pages