 | 1843 - 770 pages
...sufficiently populous, and it should be desirable to retard or stop the progress of population—the analysis of the marriages, births, and deaths, in...progression,' if the births cease to maintain the same ratio to the population ; and the births may always be reduced rapidly by retarding the period and... | |
 | 1843 - 624 pages
...harsh in their operation, and are at the command of the immediate sufferers." Again, he adds — " Should the time nevertheless come, when, the country...seen that it consists of nothing but an excess of birtlj* over the deaths, and becomes a negative quantity, or 'a decrease of population in geometrical... | |
 | William Farr - 1885 - 606 pages
...little courage into James I. could scarcely have attained its present power, or sustained its pre=eut greatness. Should the time nevertheless come, when...progression," if the births cease to maintain the same ratio to the population ; and the births may always be reduced rapidly by retarding the period and... | |
 | William Farr - 1885 - 612 pages
...Malthus wrote, the empire could scarcely have attained its present power, or sustained ¡is pre.-ent greatness. Should the time nevertheless come, when...that it consists of nothing but an excess of births qver the deaths, and becomes a negative quantity, or "a decrease of population in geometrical progression,"... | |
 | Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1889 - 366 pages
...increase, as the numbers in the geometrical series, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, indefinitely. As Farr points out, the principle of " an increase of the population in geometrical progression " has nothing in it irresistible or in-exorable ; it consists simply in an excess of births over the deaths, and becomes... | |
 | Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1889 - 366 pages
...increase, as the numbers in the geometrical series, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, indefinitely. As Fair points out, the principle of " an increase of the population in geometrical progression " has nothing in it irresistible or inexorable ; it consists simply in an excess of births over the deaths, and becomes... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1842 - 684 pages
...census returns, will show, as has been already proved, that this may be effected in a very simple manner without raising the mortality. The principle of "...progression," if the births cease to maintain the same ratio to the population ; and the births may always be reduced rapidly by retarding the period and... | |
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Should the time nevertheless come, when the country is sufficiently populous, and it should be desirable to retard or stop the progress of population — the analysis of the marriages, births, and deaths, in connexion with the census returns, will show,... 