An Essay on the Principle of PopulationCosimo, Inc., 1 Oca 2013 - 324 sayfa Around 1796, Mr. Malthus, an English gentleman, had finished reading a book that confidently predicted human life would continue to grow richer, more comfortable and more secure, and that nothing could stop the march of progress. He discussed this theme with his son, Thomas, and Thomas ardently disagreed with both his father and the book he had been reading, along with the entire idea of unending human progress. Mr. Malthus suggested that he write down his objections so that they could discuss them point-by-point. Not long after, Thomas returned with a rather long essay. His father was so impressed that he urged his son to have it published. And so, in 1798, appeared An Essay on Population, by British political economist and demographer THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS (1766-1834). Though it was attacked at the time and ridiculed for many years afterward, it has remained one of the most influential works in the English language on the general checks and balances of the world's population and its necessary control. This is a replica of the 1826 sixth edition. Volume 1 includes: Book I: "Of the Checks to the Population in the Less Civilised Parts of the World and in Past Times" and Book II: "Of the Checks to the Population in the Different States of Modern Europe." |
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OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN THE ISLANDS OF | 44 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION AMONG THE ANCIENT | 59 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION AMONG Modern Pastoral | 75 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN DIFFERENT PARTS | 89 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN THE TURKISH DOMINIONS | 110 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN Sweden | 164 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN RUSSIA | 177 |
CHAP PAGE V OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN SWITZERLAND | 200 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN FRANCE | 215 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN FRANCEcontinued | 228 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN ENGLAND | 236 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN ENGLANDcontinued | 251 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND | 267 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN INDOSTAN AND TIBET | 116 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN CHINA AND JAPAN | 125 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION AMONG THE GREEKS | 139 |
OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION AMONG THE ROMANS | 146 |
BOOK II | 154 |
ON THE FRUITFULNESS OF MARRIAGES | 279 |
EFFECTS OF EPIDEMICS ON REGISTERS OF BIRTHS Deaths AND MARRIAGES | 295 |
GENERAL DEDUCTIONS FROM THE PRECEDING VIEW OF SOCIETY | 304 |
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Sayfa 20 - Population invariably increases where the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks. 3. These checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery.
Sayfa 7 - 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, The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
Sayfa 7 - But as, by that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, population can never actually increase beyond the lowest nourishment capable of supporting it, a strong check on population, from the difficulty of acquiring food, must be constantly in operation.
Sayfa 6 - I allude, is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it.
Sayfa 18 - It very rarely happens that the nominal price of labour universally falls; but we well know that it frequently remains the same while the nominal price of provisions has been gradually rising. This, indeed, will generally be the case if the increase of manufactures and commerce be sufficient to employ the new labourers that are thrown into the market, and to prevent the increased supply from lowering the money-price.
Sayfa 12 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Sayfa 17 - ... turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage...
Sayfa 8 - Consequently in no state that we have yet known, has the power of population been left to exert itself with perfect freedom. Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman...