 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...population is not, as many persons believe, peculiar to a condition of great inequality of property. A greater number of people cannot, in any given state...niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, are the cause of the penalty attached to over-population. An unjust distribution of wealth does not... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1848 - 544 pages
...Mississippi, is a misfortune ? Yet this is a legitimate inference from the theory ; and he says explicitly, " A greater number of people cannot, in any given state...be collectively so well provided for as a smaller." But his argument amounts to nothing, for, by the very terms of the statement, if there is more work... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 638 pages
...population is not, as many persons believe, peculiar to a condition of great inequality of property. A greater number of people cannot, in any given state...niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, are the cause of the penalty attached to over-population. An unjust distribution of wealth does not... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1852 - 672 pages
...population is not, as many persons | believe, peculiar to a condition of great inequality of pro1 perty. A greater number of people cannot, in any given \...civilization, be collectively so well provided for as a I smaller. The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Business & Economics - 1856 - 588 pages
...aggravation to the misery of laborers." — Chalmers's Political Economy, Vol. I. pp. 35 -37. he says, that " a greater number of people cannot, in any given state...be collectively so well provided for as a smaller." I do not accept these gloomy views of the course of nature and Providence. I do not believe that any... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 576 pages
...aggravation to the misery of laborers." — Chalmers's Political Economy, Vol. I. pp. 35 - 37. he says, that "a greater number of people cannot, in any given state...be collectively so well provided for as a smaller." I do not accept these gloomy views of the course of nature and Providence. I do not believe that any... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 586 pages
...to the misery of laborers." — Chalmers's Political Economy, Vol. I. pp. 35 - 37. he says, that " a greater number of people cannot, in any given state...be collectively so well provided for as a smaller." I do not accept these gloomy views of the course of nature and Providence. I do not believe that any... | |
 | Elements, George Drysdale - 1861 - 622 pages
...probably be more universal. " The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society," says Mr. Mill, " is the cause of the penalty attached to over-population....but, at most, causes it to be somewhat earlier felt." As however all such improvements in distribution are generally of slow growth and introduction, they... | |
 | George Drysdale - Birth control - 1861 - 616 pages
...probably be more universal. " The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society," says Mr. Mill, " is the cause of the penalty attached to over-population....but, at most, causes it to be somewhat earlier felt." As however all such improvements in distribution are generally of slow growth and introduction, they... | |
 | Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - Ireland - 1867 - 442 pages
...necessity of restraining population is not peculiar to a condition of great inequality of property. A greater number of people cannot, in any given state...cause of the penalty attached to over-population. It is in vain to say, that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence, bring with... | |
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A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided for as a smaller. The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached to over-population. 
