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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

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Thomas Robert Malthus

Reeves and Turner, 1878 - Population - 551 pages

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Index

Contents

BOOK I	1

Of the Checks to Population in the lowest Stage of Human	13

Of the Checks to Population among the ancient Inhabitants	45

Of the Checks to Population among modern Pastoral Nations	59

Of the Checks to Population in different Parts of Africa	70

Persia	88

Of the Checks to Population in China and Japan	100

Of the Checks to Population among the Greeks	112

Of the Checks to Population in England continued	206

General Deductions from the preceding View of Society	252

BOOK III	263

Of Systems of Equality Godwin	271

Of Systems of Equality continued	281

Of PoorLaws	294

Of the Agricultural System	321

XIII Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor	367

Of the Checks to Population in Norway	125

II Of the Checks to Population in Sweden	133

100	145

112	158

Of the Checks to Population in France	185

Of the Checks to Population in England	193

117	200

BOOK IV	389

Of the Effects which would result to Society from the pre	396

Effects of the Knowledge of the principal Cause of Poverty	417

Of the Direction of our Charity	441

Continuation of the same Subject	457

Appendix	483

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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
Author	Thomas Robert Malthus
Edition	8
Publisher	Reeves and Turner, 1878
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	May 24, 2008
Length	551 pages

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