 The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome...  The Oxford review; or, Literary censor - Page 91Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 576 pages
...human life— Under this head, he, therefore, enumerates all unwholesome occupations, severe labor, exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine ; and on examining these obstacles to population, it will appear that they are resolvable... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...to come. More particularly his checks are, " unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children,...all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epi- • demies, war, plague, and famine *." " A man who is born into a world already possessed, if... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 456 pages
...the direct operation of the Reverend Mr. Malthus's " extremely various positive checks" such as, " severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine* ;" the population... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1826 - 566 pages
...shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed... | |
 | John Anderson - 1826 - 484 pages
...be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, " severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, ex" treme poverty, bad nursing of children, great " towns, excesses...whole train of " common diseases and epidemics, wars, plagues, * Malthus on Population, Vol. I. p. 21. " and famine." In the countries I visited, few, if... | |
 | John Anderson - 1826 - 502 pages
...be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, " severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, ex" treme poverty, bad nursing of children, great " towns, excesses...all kinds, the whole train of " common diseases and epidemies, wars, plagues, * Malthus on Population, Vol. I. p. 21. " and famine." In the countries I... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1830 - 704 pages
...enumerated, — " all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and ex" posure to the seasons, extreme poverty, great towns, " excesses of all kinds, the whole train...diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, "and famine3;" which, with something about bad nursing, make up the whole list. The anonymous author says,... | |
 | Graham Hutchison - 1843 - 684 pages
...occupations, severe labour, exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, infanticide, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train...and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine. The preventive check to population is peculiar to man, and arises from his being endowed with reason,... | |
 | 1846 - 982 pages
...theevil is less than that which results from the positive checks to population, namely, unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common disease and epidemics, wars, plagues, and famines.... | |
 | 1849 - 496 pages
...the evil is less than that which results from the positive checks to population, namely, unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common disease and epidemies, wars, plagues, and famines.... | |
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