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The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy - Page 156
by John Elliott Cairnes - 1875 - 235 pages
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The American Naturalist, Volume 46

1912 - 772 pages
...proposition from which he derived his well-known sociological conclusion : The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is incontrovertibly true that there is no bound to the prolific plants and animals, but what is...
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Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social ...

Henry Charles Carey, Kate McLean - 1872 - 584 pages
...existing inequality in the " distribution of the bounties of nature," is, as Mr. Malthus has told us, "the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it."* Before inquiring into the truth or falsehood of the idea thus propounded, it may be well to determine...
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Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social ...

Henry Charles Carey, Kate McLean - 1872 - 564 pages
...Spectator CHAPTER XLI. O* THE MALTHUSIAN THEORY. 2 1. Constant tendency, according to Mr. Malthna, in all animated life, to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. Facts, however, prove that supply is, everywhere, a consequence of demand, the quantity of food prepared...
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The elements of social science; or, Physical, sexual, and natural religion ...

George Drysdale - 1876 - 804 pages
...object of the enlightened philanthropist in all ages to correct. The cause to which I allude, is the constant tendency in all animated life, to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr> Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...
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The North American Review, Volume 126

1878 - 656 pages
...that law here, or to defend the solid ground upon which it rests. It is, in the language of Malthus, that there is a " constant tendency in all animated...increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." Or, as applied especially to man, in the more elaborate and analytical words of one of Malthus's most intelligent...
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Conversations on the Principal Subjects of Political Economy

William Elder - 1882 - 382 pages
...one which has caused the existing inequality in the distribution of the bounties of nature — is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." PREPARED for it ! What do these grumblers mean ? Is there any lack in the stock of materials capable...
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Principles of Political Economy, Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1884 - 718 pages
...Malthusian doctrine is so absurd as to hold that the growth of population actually exceeds subsistence, but that there is a "constant tendency in all animated...increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it," no one can possibly doubt. This is not inconsistent with the fact that subsistence has at anytime increased...
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Aus Natur- und Menschenleben

William T. Preyer - 1885 - 378 pages
...funbamentale Дrfaфe beê Safterê unb ©lenbé unb ber ungШфen SSertbeilung ber ©lücfêgüter „is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr. Frankiin that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals but...
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The Law of Population: Its Consequences and Its Bearing Upon Human Conduct ...

Annie Besant - 1886 - 56 pages
...support, and the superabundant life is kept down by the want of food. Malthus put the law thus : " The constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." " It is observed by Dr. Franklin," he writes, " that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants...
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Principles of Political Economy

John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 736 pages
...Malthusian doctrine is so absurd as to hold that the growth of population actually exceeds subsistence, but that there is a "constant tendency in all animated...increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it," no one can possibly doubt. This is not inconsistent with the fact that subsistence has at any time...
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