 ... disease; the enormous mortality among the infants of the poor is one of the checks which now keeps down the population. The checks that ought to control population are scientific, and it is these which we advocate.  Fruits of philosophy - Page 10by Charles Knowlton - 1891 - 87 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Duncan - Dissenters, Religious - 1825 - 274 pages
...artifices or the ignorance of the radical press. This profound economist has satisfactorily proved, that population has. a tendency to increase, faster than the means of subsistence; from w,hich invariable law of nature it evidently follows., that there always, must of... | |
 | John Francis Bray - Chartism - 1839 - 242 pages
...remedy whatever. Among their other speculations, the political economists profess to have discovered that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence — which means, in other words, that more children are born into the world than can be... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...the least willing to give to the sacred cause of charity. He has introduced the doctrine of Malthus, that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence, a doctrine which, as last modified by its estimable author, has always appeared to us... | |
 | William Horsell - Hydrotherapy - 1850 - 266 pages
...puzzled in their attempts to make out a satisfactory theory of population. Mr. Malthus has contended that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence, unless some extraordinary counteracting causes be interposed. On this assumption, "war,... | |
 | Russell Thacher Trall - Hydrotherapy - 1851 - 488 pages
...have not yet been able to agree upon any satisfactory theory of population. Mr. Malthus has contended that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence, unless some extraordinary counteracting causes be interposed. On this assumption, "war,... | |
 | Sir George Kettilby Rickards - Capital - 1854 - 308 pages
...to examine into the facts and reasonings on which Mr. Malthus has founded his celebrated dictum — that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence. LECTURE III. ON POPULATION. THE distinctive doctrine of Mr. Malthus on population is expressed... | |
 | sir George Kettilby Rickards - 1854 - 316 pages
...to examine into the facts and reasonings on which Mr. Malthus has founded his celebrated dictum — that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence. 54 LECTURE III. ON POPULATION. THE distinctive doctrine of Mr. Malthus on population is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...have starved or have never been born. She has shown that the dictum of the early political economists, that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence, is no law of humanity, but merely a tendency of the barbaric and ignorant man, which can... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor - Natural history - 1885 - 444 pages
...'are connected with the state of the food supply ; without reading Malthus they become aware sometimes that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence, and, therefore, to avoid starvation, quit their mountain fastnesses to invade the fruitful... | |
 | 1866 - 840 pages
...have starved or have never been born. She has shown that the dictum of the early political economists, that population has a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence, is no law of humanity, but merely a tendency of the barbaric and ignorant man, which can... | |
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