 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
 | Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, Lancelot Austin Garrard, H. L. Short - 1921 - 812 pages
...; and the positive checks are vice and misery. " Under this head may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine." The several parts of this argument have very different degrees of cogency. Everyone,... | |
 | Lea Campos Boralevi - 1984 - 268 pages
...restraint from marriage which is not followed by irregular gratifications', and by vice, all kind of 'promiscuous intercourse, unnatural passions, violations...improper acts to conceal the consequences of irregular connections'.114 Whereas the distinction between positive and preventive checks was, in some way, 'objective... | |
 | 292 pages
...to legal sanctions limiting family size as well as to "positive checks" to population growth such as "severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme...towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common disease and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine"7 — in other words a "die-back" of the population.... | |
 | Robert Woods - 1995 - 100 pages
...(Malthus, 1803, p. 18). Of these, the 'positive checks', as Malthus called them, included 'all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine'. The preventive checks could largely be equated with 'restraint from marriage which... | |
 | Michael Anderson - 1996 - 436 pages
...(Malthus, 1803, p. 18). Of these, the 'positive checks', as Malthus called them, included 'all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine'. The preventive checks could largely be equated with 'restraint from marriage which... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 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 Avery - 1997 - 194 pages
...positive checks are those which increase mortality. Among the positive checks, Malthus lists 'unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine.' In the following chapters of Books I and II, Malthus showed in detail the mechanisms... | |
 | Ozay Mehmet - 1999 - 232 pages
...types of checks to population growth: positive checks that contribute to shortening human life such as 'extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns,...and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague and famine' and preventive checks by which he meant 'moral restraint' in gender relations and delayed marriages:... | |
 | Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies - 2002 - 164 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. (Malthus, 1803) Darwin put this together with his understanding of artificial selection... | |
 | Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 390 pages
...life-shorrening checks include diseases, epidemics, wars, plagues, and famines, but also 'unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, large towns, excesses of all kinds' (8). The 'preventive' or birth-reducing checks include delayed... | |
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