The Population Question According to T. R. Malthus and J. S. Mill: Giving the Malthusian Theory of OverpopulationG. Standring, 1892 - 94 pages |
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Alexander Bain animals Annie Besant Bertillon Besant birth-rate births born Bradlaugh Catholic cause celibacy Charles Bradlaugh Charles Knowlton checks to population Church civilised conjugal prudence Corn Laws death disease doctrine doubled DRYSDALE emigration England Essay on Population Europe evils existence famine favourable France French Germany HOSPITAL human immigrants Indian infanticide infants inhabitants Ireland J. S. Mill Jesus College John Stuart Mill Joseph Garnier labour land large families late marriages less live London Malthus's Malthusian MALTHUSIAN THEORY mankind married persons means of subsistence misery moral mother nation nature number of children opinion over-population parents Paris pauperism PHYSICIAN Political Economy poor poorer classes Post free poverty prevent Principle of Population produce proportion prosecution prostitution published question race rate of increase regard remedy Robert Dale Owen Robert Owen says Scotland sexes social society speak species T. R. MALTHUS tion twenty-five Upper Class whilst writers young
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Page 26 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny.
Page 67 - Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst...
Page 70 - The advancement of the welfare of mankind is a most intricate problem: all ought to refrain from marriage who cannot avoid abject poverty for their children; for poverty is not only a great evil but tends to its own increase by leading to recklessness in marriage. On the other hand, as Mr. Galton has remarked, if the prudent avoid marriage, while the reckless marry, the inferior members tend to supplant the better members of society.
Page 26 - Plata, clothing square leagues of surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants, have been introduced from Europe ; and there are plants which now range in India, as I hear from Dr. Falconer, from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya, which have been imported from America since its discovery. In such cases, and endless...
Page 1 - When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession. This is a fund, which, from the nature of all soils, instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing.
Page 26 - The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural increase; it will be safest to assume that it begins breeding when thirty years old: and goes on breeding till ninety years old, bringing forth six young in the interval, and surviving till one hundred years old: if this be so, after a period of from...
Page 68 - If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.