 | 1843 - 770 pages
...widows; of 100 men, 12 were widowers." " As the number of marriages, however, has increased for many years, and the expectation of life among women at...at 17, do not marry until they attain a mean age of 24.3, the men until they are 25 j, proves that prudence, or ' moral restraint,' in Mr. Malthus's sense... | |
 | 1843 - 624 pages
...widows ; of 100 men, 12 were widowers." " As the number of marriages, however, has increased for many years, and the expectation of life among women at...at 17, do not marry until they attain a mean age of 24 '3, the men until they are 25}, proves that prudence, or ' moral restraint,' in Mr. Malthus's sense... | |
 | George Drysdale - 1861 - 616 pages
...fourth annual Report of the Registrar General in 1842, Dr. William Farr says, " The fact that one -fifth of the people of this country who attain the age of...certainly nubile at 17, do not marry until they attain a moan age of 24.3, the men until they are 25J, proves that prudence, or moral restraint, in Mr. Malthus's... | |
 | George Drysdale - 1861 - 622 pages
...fourth annual Report of the Registrar General in 1842, Dr. William Farr says, "The fact that one -fifth of the people of this country who attain the age of...certainly nubile at 17, do not marry until they attain a moan age of 24.3, the men until they are 25£, proves that prudence, or moral restraint, in Mr. Malthus's... | |
 | George R. Drysdale - 1877 - 622 pages
...In the appendix to the fourth annual Report of the Registrar General in 1842, Dr. William Farr says, "The fact that one-fifth of the people of this country...at 17, do not marry until they attain a mean age of 24.3, the men until they are 25i, proves that prudence, or moral restraint, in Mr. Malthus's sense... | |
 | William Farr - 1885 - 612 pages
...at the nuptual age is greater than that of men, it is probable that about 1 in 3 widowers and 1 ¡n 4 widows re-marry. The fact that one-fifth of the...at 17, do not marry until they attain a mean age of 24 '3, the men until they are 25 J, proves that prudence, or " moral restraint," in Mr. Multhus's sense... | |
 | Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1889 - 366 pages
...number of marriages; so that the mathematical terror propounded by Mai thus is purely theoretical. The fact that one-fifth of the people of this country...who attain the age of marriage never marry, and that women, al-though capable of bearing children at 16, do not marry until they attain a mean age of 24'7... | |
 | Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1889 - 366 pages
...number of marriages ; so that the mathematical terror propounded by Mai thus is purely theoretical. The fact that one-fifth of the people of this country...who attain the age of marriage never marry, and that women, although capable of bearing children at 16, do not marry until they attain a mean age of 24'7... | |
 | Kevin White - 2001 - 312 pages
...early marriages and population were injuriously fostered: — "The facts (ascertained by the censuses) that one-fifth of the people of this country, who...age of marriage, never marry, and that the women, although certainly nubile at 17, do not marry, on an average, until they have attained the age of 24.3,... | |
 | Staff - 1846 - 626 pages
...one county and another. In Mr. Farr's letter in the Registrar-General's Report for 1842, we are told that one-fifth of the people of this country, who...the age of marriage, never marry; and that the women do not marry till they attain a mean age of 24'3, nor the men until they are 2572; which shows that... | |
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The fact, that one-fifth of the people of this country who attain the age of marriage never marry; and that the women, though capable of bearing children at 16, and certainly nubile at 17, do not marry until they attain a mean age of 24.3, the men until... 