 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
 | 1891 - 1590 pages
...as moral restraint or vice. The positive checks are exceedingly various, including 'all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, large towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague,... | |
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - 1892 - 122 pages
...it is they can go on with it. Mr. Malthus's positive checks to population comprehend all unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons,...great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of disease and epidemics, wars, plague, famine, and infanticide and abortion. Unwholesome occupations... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1894 - 166 pages
...the natural | duration of human life. Under this head therefore may be enumerated, all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which are classed under the heads of preventive... | |
 | George Boughton Curtiss - 1896 - 906 pages
...propagation of the species; (2) positive checks, which he enumerates as "all unwholesome occupations, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns,...of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases, epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague and famine. ' ' * Despite the kernel of truth that this theory... | |
 | 1896 - 840 pages
...as moral restraint or vice. The positive checks are exceedingly various, including 'all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, large towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague,... | |
 | Johannes Unbehaun - 1896 - 164 pages
...duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be innumerated all unwholesome occupations, swere labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, large towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemies, wars, plague,... | |
 | 1901 - 948 pages
...as moral restraint or vice. The positive checks are exceedingly various, including 'all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, large towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, Avars, plague,... | |
 | William Bell Robertson - 1905 - 272 pages
...means of subsistence is by what Malthus calls "positive checks " — viz., vice, misery, unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine; and the way that Malthus would have it kept under is by what he calls "preventive... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 618 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,...and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which are classed under the heads of preventive... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - 1907 - 732 pages
...human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labor and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed... | |
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