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, 第 2 巻J. Murray, 1830 - 690 ページ |
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adverted already American amongst amount annual births Annual Deaths annual marriages annual number appears argument assertion average calculated census centum chapter circumstances column commence compared computation connexions consequently consideration considered contrary deductions demonstration doubling effect emigration England equal especially Essay on Population exhibit facts favourable fecundity females former geometric ratio given HUMAN DUPLICATION human increase inhabitants instance involuntary celibacy lation latter law of Nature law of population less live to marry males Malthus Malthus's mankind Mean Number method number of marriages observed operation period possible preceding table present preventive check principle of population prolificness of marriages proof prove Prussia question radix rate of increase reference regarding registers render respects riages sexes shew shewn Sir William Petty square mile superfecundity supposed supposition surviving Susmilch Sweden take place term theory tion Total Births Total Number truth whole number widowers writers
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604 ページ - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
611 ページ - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
324 ページ - No one fact relative to the human species is more clearly ascertained, whether by general observation or actual proof, than that their fecundity varies in different communities and countries. The principle which effects this variation, without the necessity of those cruel and unnatural expedients so frequently adverted to, constitutes what I presume to call THE LAW OF POPULATION ; and that law may be thus briefly enunciated: — " THE PROLIFICNESS OF HUMAN BEINGS, OTHERWISE SIMILARLY CIRCUMSTANCED,...
639 ページ - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
45 ページ - But, to be perfectly sure that we are far within the truth, we will take the slowest of these rates of increase, a rate in which all concurring testimonies agree, and which has been repeatedly ascertained to be from procreation only. It may safely be pronounced, therefore, that population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio.
26 ページ - Hence marriages in America are more general, and more generally early than in Europe. And if it is reckoned there, that there is but one marriage per annum among one hundred persons, perhaps we may here reckon two ; and if in Europe they have but four births to a marriage (many of their marriages being late), we may here reckon eight, of which, if...
581 ページ - Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms Nature has scattered the seeds of life abroad with the most profuse and liberal hand; but has been comparatively sparing in the room and the nourishment necessary to rear them.
198 ページ - ... and by an increase in the burials ; therefore by a decrease in the excess of the births above the deaths. Thus it appears, that an increase in the quantity of food, or in the facility...
595 ページ - Behold the fowls of the air ; they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.
198 ページ - ... and by a decrease in the number of burials ; consequently by an increase in the excess of the births above the deaths. Also, that any material rise in the price is generally attended by a corresponding decrease in the marriages and...