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 Pamphleteer - Page 522edited by - 1819 - 60 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated a'l unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, piague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population, which are... | |
| Thomas Jarrold - Malthusianism - 1806 - 420 pages
...understood celibacy; by the positive, is comprehended " all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars. pestilence, plague, and famine ; to these are added,. promiscuous intercourse, * Pages. unnatural passions,... | |
| 734 pages
...preventive, Mr. M. understands celibacy ; by the positive, " all umvholsome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine. To these are added, promiscuous intercourse, unnatural passions, violations... | |
| William Keir - Law - 1807 - 284 pages
..."therefore may be enumerated all unWhole• •• ^ ..f•.-,• • " some occupations, severe labour, and exposure " to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...all kinds, ** the whole train of common diseases and epe" demies, wars, plague, and famine^" This learned author in these passages last quoted, has, like... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...human life. Under this head therefore may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labor and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed under the heads of... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1809 - 576 pages
...human life. Under this head therefore may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labor and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed under the heads of... | |
| Wakefield, Edward - Ireland - 1812 - 954 pages
...life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague and famine.":}: Mr. Malthus says, " the obstacles to the increase of population,... | |
| William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life, as extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine, are the positive checks to population. The necessary and constant effect... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Birth control - 1817 - 524 pages
...life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, 22 Of the general Checks to Population, Bk. i. towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common... | |
| Robert Fraser - Fisheries - 1818 - 324 pages
...p. 8. t Ibid, pp head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilences, plagues, and famine.* Mr. Malthus says, " the obstacles to the measure^ of population... | |
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