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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... express sanction of one whose phi- losophy I have endeavoured to follow throughout , though at an immeasurable distance - Bacon , who , in a kind of soliloquy prefixed to his great work , comes to a similar conclusion and states reasons ...
... express sanction of one whose phi- losophy I have endeavoured to follow throughout , though at an immeasurable distance - Bacon , who , in a kind of soliloquy prefixed to his great work , comes to a similar conclusion and states reasons ...
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... express throughout by an expressive term , not in general use , though not of my creation3 , - superfe- cundity . ( 2 ) In proceeding to disprove that there is any such principle in nature as this superfecundity , in reference to the ...
... express throughout by an expressive term , not in general use , though not of my creation3 , - superfe- cundity . ( 2 ) In proceeding to disprove that there is any such principle in nature as this superfecundity , in reference to the ...
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... express . The idea of mankind multiplying in a " geometric ratio , " that is , doubling their numbers in regularly recurring intervals of equal duration , is sufficiently old , so is the expression itself3 . But the geometrical ...
... express . The idea of mankind multiplying in a " geometric ratio , " that is , doubling their numbers in regularly recurring intervals of equal duration , is sufficiently old , so is the expression itself3 . But the geometrical ...
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... express . But to consider what it means rather than what it shews , viz . that mankind would , unre- strained , double their numbers every twenty - five years , while their food could not be made to increase in an equal time , in any ...
... express . But to consider what it means rather than what it shews , viz . that mankind would , unre- strained , double their numbers every twenty - five years , while their food could not be made to increase in an equal time , in any ...
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... express the utmost increase of human food , will , in the first place , be considered separately , and then in its sup- posed connexion with the geometric one . ( 3 ) In proceeding to examine this supposed ratio of the increase of food ...
... express the utmost increase of human food , will , in the first place , be considered separately , and then in its sup- posed connexion with the geometric one . ( 3 ) In proceeding to examine this supposed ratio of the increase of food ...
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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.