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... tion and Food ; Checks to Population , by T. R. Malthus General Deductions from the Preceding View of Society , by T. R. Malthus . Of our Future Prospects respecting the Removal or Mitiga- tion of the Evils arising from the Principle of ...
... tion and Food ; Checks to Population , by T. R. Malthus General Deductions from the Preceding View of Society , by T. R. Malthus . Of our Future Prospects respecting the Removal or Mitiga- tion of the Evils arising from the Principle of ...
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... tion is at bottom a phenomenon of individualism . The immigrant comes from economic , less often from other , motives , which have to do with his own individual , or his family's , interests . The American workman opposes his coming ...
... tion is at bottom a phenomenon of individualism . The immigrant comes from economic , less often from other , motives , which have to do with his own individual , or his family's , interests . The American workman opposes his coming ...
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... tion . With the publication in 1908-1909 by the United States Census Bureau of a special report bringing the statistics of mar- riage and divorce down to 1906 , popular solicitude has increased , at equal pace with the divorce rate ...
... tion . With the publication in 1908-1909 by the United States Census Bureau of a special report bringing the statistics of mar- riage and divorce down to 1906 , popular solicitude has increased , at equal pace with the divorce rate ...
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... tion at the present status of the institution , and of a highly unsettled condition in the organization of the family are not lacking . Some attribute all this to a decline in moral sense and stamina , to increasing materialism and ...
... tion at the present status of the institution , and of a highly unsettled condition in the organization of the family are not lacking . Some attribute all this to a decline in moral sense and stamina , to increasing materialism and ...
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... tion , whether the South is doing its duty in negro education , considering its resources , whether federal aid should be forth- coming , and finally what effect education , of whatever type , will have on the thrift and efficiency of ...
... tion , whether the South is doing its duty in negro education , considering its resources , whether federal aid should be forth- coming , and finally what effect education , of whatever type , will have on the thrift and efficiency of ...
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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...