An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, 第 2 巻 |
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... demand for labor , and the number of vacant employments , immediately to marry . This immense number of marriages in the year could not possibly be ac- companied by a great proportional number of births , because we cannot suppose that ...
... demand for labor , and the number of vacant employments , immediately to marry . This immense number of marriages in the year could not possibly be ac- companied by a great proportional number of births , because we cannot suppose that ...
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... demand for labor , so far meliorate the condition of the laborer , as greatly to encourage marriage , the custom of early marriages is generally continued till the population has gone beyond the increased produce , and sickly seasons ...
... demand for labor , so far meliorate the condition of the laborer , as greatly to encourage marriage , the custom of early marriages is generally continued till the population has gone beyond the increased produce , and sickly seasons ...
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... demand a part of the surplus produce of others as a debt of justice . It has appeared , that from the inevitable laws of human nature some human beings will be exposed to want . These are the unhappy persons who in the great lottery of ...
... demand a part of the surplus produce of others as a debt of justice . It has appeared , that from the inevitable laws of human nature some human beings will be exposed to want . These are the unhappy persons who in the great lottery of ...
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... demand would be felt for an increas- ed circulating medium . The nature of the me- dium then principally in use was such , that it could be created immediately on demand . From the accounts of the bank of England , as laid be- fore ...
... demand would be felt for an increas- ed circulating medium . The nature of the me- dium then principally in use was such , that it could be created immediately on demand . From the accounts of the bank of England , as laid be- fore ...
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... demand therefore for an increased circula- ting medium was left to be supplied principally by the country banks , and it could not be expected that they should hesitate in taking advantage of so profitable an opportunity . The paper ...
... demand therefore for an increased circula- ting medium was left to be supplied principally by the country banks , and it could not be expected that they should hesitate in taking advantage of so profitable an opportunity . The paper ...
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agriculture appear arising average bank of England benevolence births to marriages bounty cause charity cheap soups circumstances claim of right commercial common Condorcet consequence considerable considered corn laws crease cultivation deaths degra degree demand diminish distress effect emigration encourage England evil expected exportation of corn France fruitfulness of marriages Godwin greater number habits happiness human improvement increase of population industry land laws of nature lives to marry lower classes maintenance of labor manufactures means of subsistence ment misery mode moral restraint nation necessary neral object observed parish passion plague poor laws poverty present prevailing preventive check price of corn price of labor price of provisions principle of population proportion of births puberty quantity rational expectations reason riages Robert Gourlay Russia scarcity shillings supply suppose surplus produce systems of equality take place tend tion vice wealth Wealth of Nations whole
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119 ページ - And thus it appears that a society constituted according to the most beautiful form that imagination can conceive, with benevolence for its moving principle instead of self-love, and with every evil disposition in all its members corrected by reason...
315 ページ - The period of delayed gratification would be passed in saving the earnings which were above the wants of a single man, and in acquiring habits of sobriety, industry, and economy, which would enable him in a few years to enter into the matrimonial contract without fear of its consequences.
177 ページ - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and also...
338 ページ - In an endeavour to raise the proportion of the quantity of provisions to the number of consumers in any country, our attention would naturally be first directed to the increasing of the absolute quantity of provisions; but finding that, as fast as we did this, the number of consumers more than kept pace with it, and that with all our exertions we were still as far as ever behind, we should be convinced that our efforts directed only in this way would never succeed. It would appear to be setting the...
374 ページ - ... are easily heated to outrage. Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness. It shows that something is wrong in the system of Government that injures the felicity by which society is to be preserved.
391 ページ - Though to marry in this case is, in my opinion, clearly an immoral act, yet it is not one which society can justly take upon itself to prevent or punish ; because the punishment provided for it by the laws of nature falls directly and most severely upon the individual who commits the act, and through him, only more remotely and feebly, on the society. When nature will govern and punish for us...
361 ページ - For my own part I feel not the slightest doubt that, if the introduction of the cowpox should extirpate the small-pox, and yet the number of marriages continue the same, we shall find a very perceptible difference in the increased mortality of some other diseases.
339 ページ - We are not however to relax our efforts in increasing the quantity of provisions, but to combine another effort with it, that of keeping the population, when once it has been overtaken, at such a distance behind as to effect the relative proportion which we desire, and thus unite the two grand desiderata, a great actual population and a state of society in which abject poverty and dependence are comparatively but little known, two objects which are far from being incompatible.
330 ページ - ... abstaining from marriage till we are in a condition to support a family, with a perfectly moral conduct during that period, is the strict line of duty; and when revelation is taken into the question, this duty undoubtedly receives very powerful confirmation.
239 ページ - ... expense of the home market ; as every bushel of corn, which is exported by means of the bounty, and which would not have been exported without the bounty, would have remained in the home market to increase the consumption, and to lower the price of that commodity. The corn bounty, it is to be observed, as well as every other bounty upon exportation, imposes two different taxes upon the people ; first, the tax which they are obliged to contribute, in order to pay the bounty ; and secondly, the...