 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 570 ページ
...second proposition as soon as it was enunciated. The chief object of my work was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established in the...readily exhausted. The principal fault of my details is, that.they are not sufficiently particular ; but this was a fault which it was not in my power to remedy.... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1826 - 542 ページ
...to inquire wh.it effects these laws, which 1 considered as established in the first six p:iycs, hud produced, and were likely to produce, on society ; a subject not very readily cihausted. The principal fault of my details is, that they are not sufficiently particular; but this... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1851 - 256 ページ
...was enunciated. The chief object of my work was to inquire what effects these laws, which I consider as established in the first six pages, had produced and were likely to produce on society." * Thus of two important propositions, teeming with consequences, he considered the first (which in... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1872 - 584 ページ
...second proposition as soon as it was enunciated. The chief object of my work was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established in the...readily exhausted. The principal fault of my details ia that they are not sufficiently particular; but this was a fault which it was4not in my power to... | |
 | Arnold Toynbee - 1884 - 306 ページ
...write so long a book ? " The chief object of my work," he goes on to say, " was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established in the...produce, on society; — a subject not very readily exhausted."1 The greater part of his essay is an historical examination of the growth of population... | |
 | Arnold Toynbee - 1887 - 314 ページ
...write so long a book? " The chief object of my work," he goes on to say, " was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established in the...produce, on society; — a subject not very readily exhausted."1 The greater part of his essay is an historical examination of the growth of population... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus, George Thomas Bettany - 1890 - 714 ページ
...chief object of my work was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established m the first six pages, had produced, and were likely...details is, that they are not sufficiently particular ; hut thU was a fault which it was not in my power to remedy. It would be a most curious, and, to every... | |
 | Arnold Toynbee - 1908 - 328 ページ
...write so long a book ? ' The chief object of my work,' he goes on to say, ' was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established in the...produce, on society ; — a subject not very readily exhausted.'1 The greater part of his essay is an historical examination of the growth of population... | |
 | 1928 - 330 ページ
...write so long a book ? ' The chief object of my work,' he goes on to say, ' was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established in the...produce, on society ; — a subject not very readily exhausted.'1 The greater part of his essay is an historical examination of the growth of population... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - 1964 - 480 ページ
...and the second as soon as it was enunciated. The chief object of my work was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established in the...had produced and were likely to produce on society." The whole of Malthus' case against Wallace — his contention that the difficulty foreseen by Wallace... | |
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The first of these propositions I considered as proved the moment the American increase was related, and the second proposition as soon as it was enunciated. The chief object of my work was to inquire what effects these laws, which I considered as established... 
