The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome... The Oxford review; or, Literary censor - Page 91Full view - About this book
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated a'l unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons,...of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, piague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population, which are here classed... | |
| Thomas Jarrold - 1806 - 420 pages
...positive : by the preventive, is understood celibacy; by the positive, is comprehended " all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...famine ; to these are added,. promiscuous intercourse, * Pages. unnatural passions, violations of the marriagc bed, and improper acts to conceal the consequences... | |
| William Keir - 1807 - 284 pages
...life, Upder this head "therefore may be enumerated all unWhole• •• ^ ..f•.-,• • " some occupations, severe labour, and exposure " to the...all kinds, ** the whole train of common diseases and epe" demies, wars, plague, and famine^" This learned author in these passages last quoted, has, like... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...of human life. Under this head therefore may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labor and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...of human life. Under this head therefore may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labor and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed... | |
| Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 pages
...shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons,...epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague and famine.":}: Mr. Malthus says, " the obstacles to the increase of population, which he has classed under the heads... | |
| William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 568 pages
...CHECK; and whatever contributes to shorten, the natural Duration of Human Life, (as all unwholesome Occupations, severe Labour, and Exposure to the Seasons, extreme Poverty, bad Nursing of Children, Excesses of all kinds, the full Train of common Diseases, and Epidemics, Wars, Pestilence, Plague,... | |
| William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 pages
...contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life, as extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases...and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine, are the positive checks to population. The necessary and constant effect of some checks to population... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1817 - 524 pages
...shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons,...extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, 22 Of the general Checks to Population, Bk. i. towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common... | |
| Robert Fraser - 1818 - 324 pages
...on Population edit. 1803, 4to, p. 8. t Ibid, pp head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons,...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilences, plagues, and famine.* Mr. Malthus says, " the obstacles to the measure^ of population... | |
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