Neo-Malthusianism: An Enquiry Into that System with Regard to Its Economy and Morality

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Methuen & Company, 1897 - Malthusianism - 325 pages
 

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Page 40 - It was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his Holy Name.
Page 182 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance: commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience ; — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 10 - Indeed, I should always particularly reprobate any artificial and unnatural modes of checking population, both on account of their immorality and their tendency to remove a necessary stimulus to industry.
Page 40 - Thirdly, it was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity ; Into which holy estate these two Persons present come now to be joined.
Page 108 - ... from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him : or why the occupier of a particular field or of a jewel, when lying on his death-bed, and no longer able to maintain possession, should be entitled to tell the rest of the world which of them should enjoy it after him.
Page 225 - ... to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts that have no understanding...
Page 71 - ... consists, not in generous hearts — " Fire in each breast, and freedom on each brow" — in, national virtues, and primitive simplicity, and. heroic endurance, and preference of duty to life ; — not in MEN, but in silk, and cotton, and something that they call
Page 194 - There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done ; a creature, who not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing ; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with heaven...
Page 226 - Thou know'st that thou hast formed me With passions wild and strong; And list'ning to their witching voice Has often led me wrong.
Page 120 - But if the domestic life of the people be vital above all ; if the peace, the purity of homes, the education of children, the duties of wives and mothers, the duties of husbands and of fathers, be written in the natural law of mankind, and if these things are sacred, far beyond anything that can be sold in the market, then I say, if the hours of...

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