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An essay on the principle of population /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Electric Book Co.,
©2001.
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| Series: | ElecBook Classics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- ""Thomas Robert Malthus""; ""Preface""; ""CONTENTS""; ""CHAPTER I""; "" Question stated 7""; "" Little prospect of a determination of it 8""; "" Principal argument against the perfectibility of man 9""; "" Nature of the difficulty arising from population 10""; "" Outline of the principal argument of the essay 11""; ""CHAPTER II""; "" Different ratios in which population and food increase 13""; "" Necessary effects of these different ratios 14""; "" Oscillation produced by them in the lower classes 16""; "" Reasons why oscillation not much observed 17""; "" Three propositions 18""
- "" Different states in which mankind exists 19""""CHAPTER III""; "" Savage or hunter state shortly reviewed 20""; "" Shepherd state 21""; "" Superiority of the power of population to the means of subsistence 22""; "" Cause of the great tide of Northern Emigration 23""; ""CHAPTER IV""; "" State of civilised nations 25""; "" Probability that Europe is much more populous now 25""; "" Probable error of Hume 26""; "" Slow increase of population at present in Europe 27""; "" Two principal checks to population 28""; "" First, or preventive check examined with regard to England 28""
- ""CHAPTER V"""" Second check to population examined, in England 31""; "" Why the immense sum collected in England for the poor does not better their condition 32""; "" Powerful tendency of the poor laws to defeat their own purpose 34""; "" Palliative of the distresses of the poor proposed 38""; "" Impossibility that the pressure of want can ever be completely removed 40""; "" All the checks to population may be resolved into misery or vice 40""; ""CHAPTER VI""; "" New colonies 41""; "" Reasons of their rapid increase 41""; "" North American Colonies 42""
- "" Extraordinary instance of increase in the back settlements 42"""" Rapidity with which even old states recover 44""; ""CHAPTER VII""; "" Probable cause of epidemics 45""; "" Extracts from Mr. Susmilch's tables 45""; "" Periodical returns of sickly seasons to be expected 48""; "" Proportion of births to burials inadequate criterion of increase 48""; "" Best criterion of a permanent increase 51""; "" Great frugality causes famines of China and Indostan 51""; "" Evil tendency of one of the clauses in Mr. Pitt's Poor Bill 52""; "" Only one proper way of encouraging population 53""
- "" Causes of the happiness of nations 53"""" Famine, the last and most dreadful mode 54""; "" Three propositions considered as established. 54""; ""CHAPTER VIII""; "" Mr. Wallace 55""; "" Error of supposing that the difficulty arising from population is at a great distance 55""; "" Mr. Condorcet's sketch of the progress of the human mind 55""; "" Period when the oscillation to be applied to the human race. 58""; ""CHAPTER IX""; "" Mr. Condorcet's conjecture concerning the perfectibility of man 60""; "" Fallacy of unlimited progress from a partial improvement 63""; ""CHAPTER X""