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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... supplies the most valuable produce to the society . The consequence of these favorable circum- stances united was a rapidity of increase almost without parallel in history . Throughout all the northern provinces the population was found ...
... supplies the most valuable produce to the society . The consequence of these favorable circum- stances united was a rapidity of increase almost without parallel in history . Throughout all the northern provinces the population was found ...
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... supply the wants of his neighbor . But that the question was no longer whether one man should give to another that which he did not use himself ; but whether Of systems of equality . Godwin . he should give Chap . II . 111 . POPULATION .
... supply the wants of his neighbor . But that the question was no longer whether one man should give to another that which he did not use himself ; but whether Of systems of equality . Godwin . he should give Chap . II . 111 . POPULATION .
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... supply them ; that these pressing wants , which , from the state of the produce of the country , could not all be gratified , had occasioned some flagrant violations of justice ; that these violations had already checked the in- crease ...
... supply them ; that these pressing wants , which , from the state of the produce of the country , could not all be gratified , had occasioned some flagrant violations of justice ; that these violations had already checked the in- crease ...
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... supply . Moral merit is a very difficult criterion except in extreme cases . The owners of surplus produce would in general seek some more obvious mark of distinction ; and it seems to be both natural and just , that except upon Of ...
... supply . Moral merit is a very difficult criterion except in extreme cases . The owners of surplus produce would in general seek some more obvious mark of distinction ; and it seems to be both natural and just , that except upon Of ...
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... supply of provi- sions from England . 2 The attempt of the French in 1663 , to form at once a powerful colony in Guinea , was attended 1 Burke's America , vol . ii . p . 144 . 2 Id . p . 85 . Of Emigration . with the most disastrous ...
... supply of provi- sions from England . 2 The attempt of the French in 1663 , to form at once a powerful colony in Guinea , was attended 1 Burke's America , vol . ii . p . 144 . 2 Id . p . 85 . Of Emigration . with the most disastrous ...
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advantage 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 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 probably 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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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.