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... earth is yet unoccupied , are human beings suffering for food , and crowded together in unwholesome dens , to the sacrifice of comfort , decency , and health ? Why does one nation export food of which its own members are in need , while ...
... earth is yet unoccupied , are human beings suffering for food , and crowded together in unwholesome dens , to the sacrifice of comfort , decency , and health ? Why does one nation export food of which its own members are in need , while ...
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... earth for the reception of man ... 23. Man , in common with other animals , a consumer of food . His mission , on this earth , so to direct the natural forces , as to cause the soil to yield larger supplies of the commodities required ...
... earth for the reception of man ... 23. Man , in common with other animals , a consumer of food . His mission , on this earth , so to direct the natural forces , as to cause the soil to yield larger supplies of the commodities required ...
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... earth may be subdued , man must multiply and increase . Fecundity and development in the inverse ratio of each other . Man should therefore increase but very slowly . However long the period of duplication , if the procreative tendency ...
... earth may be subdued , man must multiply and increase . Fecundity and development in the inverse ratio of each other . Man should therefore increase but very slowly . However long the period of duplication , if the procreative tendency ...
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... earth to furnish food to increasing numbers . Facts of history prove the difficulty to lie with man himself , and not in errors of the Creator .... 23. Mr. Malthus gives facts , and calls them science . Science demands principles ...
... earth to furnish food to increasing numbers . Facts of history prove the difficulty to lie with man himself , and not in errors of the Creator .... 23. Mr. Malthus gives facts , and calls them science . Science demands principles ...
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... earth , more material in their substance and more dependent upon observation , obtain development in their larger diversity of use . The sciences of substance , of natural objects , grow and ramify themselves almost indefinitely ...
... earth , more material in their substance and more dependent upon observation , obtain development in their larger diversity of use . The sciences of substance , of natural objects , grow and ramify themselves almost indefinitely ...
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Page 28 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 528 - They were unenlightened by science, and unacquainted with that religion, which enjoins men to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them.
Page 513 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the...