 ... an easy victory over a passing remark of Mr. Malthus, hazarded chiefly by way of illustration, that the increase of food may perhaps be assumed to take place in an arithmetical ratio, while population increases in a geometrical : when every candid...  Political Science Quarterly - Page 481895Full view - About this book
 | 1979 - 334 pages
...mathematical training at Cambridge. John Stuart Mill, a very sympathetic critic, remarked that "this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it ... is wholly superfluous to his argument." Edwin Cannan, decidedly less sympathetic, dismissed what... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1998 - 450 pages
...In 1840 John Stuart Mill was still trying to undo the damage Malthus inflicted on his thesis by "the unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it."4 Even if Malthus did not divorce numerical data from the providential postulates that were so... | |
 | Sandra Peart - 2003 - 296 pages
...remark, hazarded chiefly by way of illustration,' and affirmed that 'Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it.'6 We affirm, on the contrary, and we refer our readers for confirmation to the first chapter of... | |
 | Denis Patrick O'Brien - 2004 - 458 pages
...increases in a geometrical: when every candid reader knows that Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it, and every person capable of reasoning must see that it is wholly superfluous to his argument.23 Mill,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 2006 - 477 pages
...increases in a geometrical: when every candid reader knows that Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it, and every person capable of reasoning must see that it is wholly superfluous to his argument. Others... | |
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