 | 1804 - 994 pagine
...blow, levels the population \vhh the fond of the world. " Must it not ¡hen be acknowledged, by ли attentive examiner of the histories of mankind, that, in every age, and in even- state in " hich man bas existid, or does now exist, " The increase of population is necessarily... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1806 - 578 pagine
...thoufands. Should fuccefs be ftill incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine ftalks in the rear, and at one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world. Muft it not then be acknowledged, by an attentive examiner of the hiftories of mankind, that, in every... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 566 pagine
...thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and at one mighty blow levels the population with the food...state in which man has existed or does now exist, preceding view of Society. The increase of population is necessarily limit- ' ed by the means of subsistence... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 570 pagine
...thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and at one mighty blow levels the population with the food...state in which man has existed or does now exist, Chap. XI. POPULATION. 75 preceding view of Society. The increase of population is necessarily limited... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pagine
...with people, he says, and not only are so at present, but always have been, and always must be so. " In every age, and in every state in which man has...the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence." " The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pagine
...array, and sweep off their thousands and ten thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one...levels the population with the food of the world.' The checks which keep the population down to the level of the means of subsistence are moral restraint,... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pagine
...and • * t qi off their thousands and ten thousands. Should success be slffl incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one...levels the population with the food of the world." The checks which keep the population down to the level of the means of subsistence are moral restraint,... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1817 - 520 pagine
...simple cause, though perhaps in some of these states an absolute famine may never have been known. Must it not then be acknowledged by an attentive examiner...The increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence : Population invariably increases when the means of subsistence increase... | |
 | Simon Gray - 1818 - 550 pagine
...be able to appreciate the justness of the following conclusions as far as we can understand them. " Must it not then be acknowledged by an attentive examiner...The increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence : " Population invariably increases when the means of subsistence increase,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 452 pagine
...off their thousands and ten thousands. ' Should success be still incomplete, gigantic in' evitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one ' mighty blow...levels the population with the food ' of the world.' The checks which keep the population down to the level of the means of subsistence are moral restraint,... | |
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... 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.... 
