...bounties of nature, which it bus been the unceasing objtct of the enlightened philanthropist in allants lo correct. " The cause to which I allude, is the constant...increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." " Taking the whole earth instead of ihii island, emigration would of course be excluded ; and supposing...

...commencement of society, has been little noticed by the writers who have treated on this subject.* — The cause to which I allude, is the constant tendency...increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it.-}- — That population has this constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence, will sufficiently...

...commencement of society, has been little noticed by the writers who have treated on this subject. — The cause to which I allude, is the constant tendency...to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. — That population has this constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence, will sufficiently...

...distri " tion of the bounties of nature, ydiich it " been the unceasing object of the enlightenQd " philanthropist in all ages to correct " The cause...is, the constant " tendency in all animated life to inf reuse beyond " the nourishment prepared for if." Is not the assertion contained in this last $ensence...

...powerful and obvious checks. He goes farther, and lays it down almost as an axiom, that there is a constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it, and he traces to this source a very considerable portion of the vice and misery, and of that unequal...

...man, — one cause that has hitherto impeded the progress of mankind towards happiness — to wit, the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. That population has this constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence, and that it...

...disgrace to the age," does indeed darken dismally the decrees of Providence. According to him, there is a constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it; according to him, nature has scattered the seeds of life abroad with the most profuse and liberal hand,...

...attributed to Dr. Ogilvie, but without a name or date. 1 Mr. Malthus is induced to think, " that there is a constant ten-dency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it, and that the human race is constantly endeavouring to increase beyond the means of subsistence.'" He...

...NATURE, TO INCREASE BEYOND THE NOURISHMENT PREPARED FOR IT? MR. Malthus maintains, that there is " a constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it * :" and applying this to man, he affirms that " population has this constant tendency to increase...

...latter would be extinguished in a few generations if it were not recruited by the former. Now it is the tendency, in all animated life, to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it, on which Mr. Malthus insists: he no where asserts the positive and actual excess of life beyond the...