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Page 49 - was very rich in cattle." "Lot also had flocks and herds and tents. And the land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together, for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle.
Page 155 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty
Page 41 - In the northern states of America, where the means of subsistence have been more ample, the manners of the people more pure, and the checks to early marriages fewer than in any of the modern states of Europe, the population was found to double itself for some successive periods every twenty-five years.
Page 179 - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the
Page 11 - plants and animals shrinks under this great restrictive law, and the race of man cannot by any efforts of reason escape from it. Among plants and animals its effects are waste of seed, sickness, and premature death, among men misery and vice,
Page 147 - same cause which may increase the nett revenue of the country may at the same time render the population redundant and deteriorate the condition of the labourer," for all the increase may possibly be devoted to fixed and not circulating capital, to machinery and buildings instead of wages.
Page 27 - Malthus. Of his own generalizations he is complete master. Having reasoned up to them, he can reason down from them. But, when he says, " Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence,
Page 24 - instead of a ground for opprobrium and contempt. This will make a large ' family a blessing and not a curse ; and this will draw a proper line of distinction between those who are to provide for themselves by their labour, and those who, after enriching their country
Page 15 - There is a principle in human society by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence." ! Why did he not take one step more, and discover what that principle is
Page 195 - the tendency to increase, instead of being always uniform, is strong where a greater population would give increased comfort, and where the perpetuity of the race is threatened by the mortality induced by adverse conditions, but weakens just as the higher development of the individual becomes possible, and the perpetuity of the race is assured