 We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. The constant effort towards population, which is found to act even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means...  Principles of Political Economy - Page 64by Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 736 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1809 - 576 pages
...seem to be produced in the following manner. We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants....before supported eleven millions, must now be divided among eleven millions and a half. The poor consequently must live much worse, and many of them be reduced... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...seem to be produced in the following manner. We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants....before supported eleven millions, must now be divided among eleven millions and a half. The poor consequently must live much worse, and many of them be reduced... | |
 | Simon Gray - Malthusianism - 1818 - 550 pages
...affirmations, that he has broached the opinion. " The constant effort towards population,'* eays he *, " which is found to act even in the most vicious societies,...number of people before the means of subsistence are increase^. The food, therefore, which befores supported eleven millions, must now be divided among... | |
 | Nassau William Senior, Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1828 - 500 pages
...be " just equal to the easy support of its inha" bitants. The constant effort towards popu" lation, which is found to act even in the most " vicious societies,...subsistence are " increased. The food, therefore, which be" fore supported eleven millions, must now be " divided among eleven millions and a half. " The poor,... | |
 | F. C. Page - Poor - 1830 - 260 pages
...more I extract from Mr. Malthus, vol. ip 25. " We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants....before supported eleven millions, must now be divided among eleven millions and a half. The poor, consequently, must live much worse, and many of them be... | |
 | Medicine - 1839 - 542 pages
...restraint, vice and misery, war, pestilence, and famine. But let Mr. Malthus speak for himself: — "There are few states in which there is not a constant...millions, must now be divided between eleven millions and a-lialf. The poor, consequently, must live much worse, and many of them be reduced to severe distress.... | |
 | Patrick James Stirling - Economics - 1846 - 416 pages
...to be produced in the following manner : — We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants....before supported eleven millions must now be divided among eleven millions and a half. The poor consequently must live much worse, and many of them be reduced... | |
 | Sir Travers Twiss - Economics - 1847 - 356 pages
...Mr. Malthus, p. 29, " the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of the inhabitants. The constant effort towards population,...increased. The food, therefore, which before supported seven millions, must now be divided between seven and a half or eight millions. The poor, consequently,... | |
 | Travers Twiss - Business & Economics - 1847 - 358 pages
...Mr. Malthus, p. 29, " the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of the inhabitants. The constant effort towards population,...increased. The food, therefore, which before supported seven millions, must now be divided between seven and a half or eight millions. The poor, consequently,... | |
 | Frédéric Bastiat - Economics - 1860 - 580 pages
...great permanent melioration of their condition. . . . The constant effort towards population . . . increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased," etc. — MALTHUS on Population, vol. i. pp. 17, 18, 6th edition. means of existence increase more rapidly... | |
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