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... never actually increase beyond the lowest nourishment capable of supporting it , a strong check on population , from the difficulty of acquiring food , must be constantly in operation . This difficulty must fall somewhere , and must ...
... never actually increase beyond the lowest nourishment capable of supporting it , a strong check on population , from the difficulty of acquiring food , must be constantly in operation . This difficulty must fall somewhere , and must ...
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... never the immediate check , except in cases of actual famine . The immediate check may be stated to consist in all those customs , and all those diseases , which seem to be generated by a scarcity of the means of subsistence ; and all ...
... never the immediate check , except in cases of actual famine . The immediate check may be stated to consist in all those customs , and all those diseases , which seem to be generated by a scarcity of the means of subsistence ; and all ...
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... never intentionally deviated from this sense . When I have wished to consider the restraint from marriage unconnected with its conse- quences , I have either called it prudential restraint or a part of the preventive check , of which ...
... never intentionally deviated from this sense . When I have wished to consider the restraint from marriage unconnected with its conse- quences , I have either called it prudential restraint or a part of the preventive check , of which ...
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... never nominally fall . In savage life , where there is no regular price of labor , it is little to be doubted that similar oscillations take place . When population has increased nearly to the utmost limits of the food , all the ...
... never nominally fall . In savage life , where there is no regular price of labor , it is little to be doubted that similar oscillations take place . When population has increased nearly to the utmost limits of the food , all the ...
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... never I believe been doubted . Plenty of rich land to be had for little or nothing is so powerful a cause of population as generally to overcome all obstacles . . . . ... The English North American colonies , now the powerful people of ...
... never I believe been doubted . Plenty of rich land to be had for little or nothing is so powerful a cause of population as generally to overcome all obstacles . . . . ... The English North American colonies , now the powerful people of ...
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Popular passages
Page 444 - By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law ; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 581 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives ; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 578 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 579 - Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Page 579 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 762 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are.
Page 257 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown on special inquiry that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 764 - ... that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.
Page 405 - An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States...
Page 374 - States, he shall cause such alien within the period of three years after landing or entry therein to be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came...