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, 第 2 巻Roger Chew Weightman, Pennsylvania Avenue, 1809 |
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... marry . Perhaps the problem may not be capable of an accurate solution , but we shall make some approximation towards it , and be able to account for some of the difficulties which appear in many registers , if we attend to the fol ...
... marry . Perhaps the problem may not be capable of an accurate solution , but we shall make some approximation towards it , and be able to account for some of the difficulties which appear in many registers , if we attend to the fol ...
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... marry from a com- parison of the marriages and deaths , which is what we are now about to proceed to , the whole of this correction is always necessary . To find the proportion of the born which lives to marry , we must first subtract ...
... marry from a com- parison of the marriages and deaths , which is what we are now about to proceed to , the whole of this correction is always necessary . To find the proportion of the born which lives to marry , we must first subtract ...
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... marry . But if the population be either increasing or decreasing , and the births , deaths , and marriages increasing or decreasing in the same ratio , then the deaths com- pared with the births , and the marriages compared with the ...
... marry . But if the population be either increasing or decreasing , and the births , deaths , and marriages increasing or decreasing in the same ratio , then the deaths com- pared with the births , and the marriages compared with the ...
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... marry , and the contrary will take place if the population be decreasing ; and to find this proportion , we must compare the marriages of any year with the births of a previous year at the distance of the average age of marriage ...
... marry , and the contrary will take place if the population be decreasing ; and to find this proportion , we must compare the marriages of any year with the births of a previous year at the distance of the average age of marriage ...
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... marry , than the marriages compared with the births . ' ❝ born . The 1 Dr. Price very justly says ( Observ . on ... marrying annually , to the an- “ nual deaths greater and to the annual births less than " the true proportion marrying ...
... marry , than the marriages compared with the births . ' ❝ born . The 1 Dr. Price very justly says ( Observ . on ... marrying annually , to the an- “ nual deaths greater and to the annual births less than " the true proportion marrying ...
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127 ページ - Godwin to name to me any check, that in past ages has contributed to keep down the population to the level of the means of subsistence, that does not fairly come under some form of vice or misery ; except indeed the check of moral...
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...
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.
325 ページ - The method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action, by the light of nature, is to inquire into " the tendency of the action to promote or diminish the general happiness.
497 ページ - On the whole, therefore, though our future prospects respecting the mitigation of the evils arising from the principle of population may not be so bright as we could wish, yet they are far from being entirely disheartening, and by no means preclude that gradual and progressive improvement in human society which, before the late wild speculations on the subject, was the object of rational expectation.
423 ページ - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
74 ページ - The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction; and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and ten thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the...
241 ページ - ... 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 tax which...
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.
297 ページ - Natural and moral evil seem to be the instruments employed by the Deity in admonishing us to avoid any mode of conduct which is not suited to our being, and will consequently injure our happiness.