An Essay on the Principle of Population: bk 3, ch. 13 - bk. 4John Murray, 1817 |
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Adam Smith advantage agriculture allowed appears benevolence cause certainly CHAP charity cheap soups check to population circumstances claim of right classes of society comforts condition consequences considered corn cottages cows crease cultivation degree demand for labour depend diminished distress duty effect employment encourage England expected France greater gulated habits happiness human improvement increase of population indolence industry justly labouring classes land lative law of chastity laws of nature lower classes manufactures marriage marry means of subsistence ment mode moral restraint necessarily necessary neral object observed particular passion pointed guardians poor poor-laws poor's rates poverty present prevail price of labour principle of population produce proposed pulation quantity rational Expectations reason relief respect riage Robert Gourlay scarcity Scotland shew specting take place tend tendency tion tivation vice and misery virtue wages of labour wealth Weyland
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Page 216 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 320 - From a review of the state of society in former periods compared with the present, I should certainly say that the evils resulting from the principle of population have rather diminished than increased, even under the disadvantage of an almost total ignorance of the real cause. And if we can indulge the hope that this ignorance will be gradually dissipated, it does not seem unreasonable to...
Page 341 - Several writers had said that it is the tendency of population to increase faster than the means of subsistence.
Page 181 - ... punish ; because the punishment provided for it by the laws of nature, falls directly, and most severely upon the individual who commits the act, and through him, only more remotely and feebly on the society. When nature will govern and punish for us...
Page 119 - ... the faces of his friends from whom he may have borrowed money, reduced to the meanest tricks and subterfuges to delay or avoid the payment of his just debts ; till ultimately grown familiar with falsehood and at enmity with the world he loses all the grace and dignity of man.
Page 128 - ... should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the country, we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome situations. But above all, we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and those benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular disorders.
Page 113 - ... provisions to the number of consumers in any country, our attention would naturally be first directed to the increasing of the absolute quantity of provisions; but finding that as fast as we did this the number of consumers more than kept pace with it, and that with all our exertions we were still as far as ever behind, we should be convinced that our efforts directed only in this way would never succeed. It would appear to be setting the tortoise to catch the hare.
Page 254 - This problem is, How to provide for those who are in want, in such a manner as to prevent a continual increase of their numbers, and of the proportion which they bear to the whole society.
Page 117 - I can easily conceive that this country, with a proper direction of the national industry, might in the course of some centuries contain two or three times its present population, and yet •* every man in the kingdom be much better fed and clothed than he is at present.
Page 222 - English jurymen, whose ground of faith it is that every man has a right to do what he will with his own, and even to do it how he likes.