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... supply . Before it is exhausted we may be beyond the need of it . The earth itself may have collapsed , with all its in- habitants . Don't let us refuse a present blessing from fear of a remote future danger . Besides , it is not very ...
... supply . Before it is exhausted we may be beyond the need of it . The earth itself may have collapsed , with all its in- habitants . Don't let us refuse a present blessing from fear of a remote future danger . Besides , it is not very ...
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... supplies should always be found with the same ease as the old ones . Now it is not necessary to suppose that the most ... supply new food to new - comers without any limit at all ? This would be an ideally fertile land corresponding to ...
... supplies should always be found with the same ease as the old ones . Now it is not necessary to suppose that the most ... supply new food to new - comers without any limit at all ? This would be an ideally fertile land corresponding to ...
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... supplies , is at all to be made possible ? the answer is , only by greater ingenuity and greater labor in the getting of food ; and , however possible this may be , it can hardly be so easy as the increase of liv . ing beings by their ...
... supplies , is at all to be made possible ? the answer is , only by greater ingenuity and greater labor in the getting of food ; and , however possible this may be , it can hardly be so easy as the increase of liv . ing beings by their ...
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... supplies . Once it is acknowledged that to raise new food requires greater labor and new inventions , while to bring new men into the world requires nothing more than in all times past , the disparity of the two is already admitted ...
... supplies . Once it is acknowledged that to raise new food requires greater labor and new inventions , while to bring new men into the world requires nothing more than in all times past , the disparity of the two is already admitted ...
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... supplies that makes men incredulous about the necessity of checks ; and we may grant that under an ideal government , a perfect people , and faultless social system , the produce would at first be so great that the necessity for checks ...
... supplies that makes men incredulous about the necessity of checks ; and we may grant that under an ideal government , a perfect people , and faultless social system , the produce would at first be so great that the necessity for checks ...
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Page 62 - 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.
Page 130 - If your only object in trade is to make the largest possible profit, you ought always to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest...
Page 21 - Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply beyond it. But in civilized society it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than by destroying a great part of the children which...
Page 62 - And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle : and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Page 205 - And let us not be weary in well doing : for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Page 39 - 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 has been found to double itself, for above a century and a half successively, in less than twenty-five years.
Page 22 - I have hinted before in a note, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay.
Page 123 - Our differences may in some respects, I think, be ascribed to your considering my book as more practical than I intended it to be. My object was to elucidate principles, and to do this I imagined strong cases, that I might show the operation of those principles.
Page 115 - By the union with England, the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland gained a complete deliverance from the power of an aristocracy which had always before oppressed them.