Is Britain Over-populated?Kerr, 1927 - 118 стор. |
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Сторінка 3 - FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small, and white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green...
Сторінка 45 - It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with them hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much.
Сторінка 13 - let us clearly understand what 'merely physical efficiency' means. A family living upon the scale allowed for in this estimate 1 For this unique caiculation see op. cit., p. 110. must never spend a penny on railway fare or omnibus. They must never go into the country unless they walk. They must never purchase a half-penny newspaper or spend a penny to buy a ticket for a popular concert. They must write no letters to absent...
Сторінка 14 - They cannot save, nor can they join sick club or trade union, because they cannot pay the necessary subscriptions. The children must have no pocket money for dolls, marbles, or sweets. The father must smoke no tobacco, and must drink no beer. The mother must never buy any pretty clothes for herself or for her children, the character of the family wardrobe as for the family diet being governed by the regulation, Nothing must be bought but that which is absolutely necessary for the maintenance of physical...
Сторінка 13 - A family living upon the scale allowed for in this estimate must never spend a penny on railway fare or omnibus. They must never go into the country unless they walk. They must never purchase a halfpenny newspaper or spend a penny to buy a ticket for a popular concert. They must write no letters to absent children, for they cannot afford to pay the postage. They must never contribute anything to their church or chapel, or give any help to a neighbour which costs them...
Сторінка 32 - ... the United States. The thesis which I attempt to defend is that to make the most out of a man, to bring him up to the desirable level of productive capacity, to enable him to live as a man ought to live, he must be better fed than he would be by these standards. This is only...
Сторінка 73 - ... land not subject to flooding and not too far above sea-level to prevent corn from ripening. The cost would be prohibitive, and the suggestion that we might furnish our people with their normal food supply may be dismissed as absurd. But between the 34 per cent, of our food requirements supplied by our land in...
Сторінка 75 - that he is worse housed and worse fed than the English labourer. His cottage is generally a single room with a mud floor, in which he and his family and his live stock live, eat, sleep, and die . . . From morning till night his toil is excessive and prolonged; female labour is the rule; children are continuously employed, while his little property is often mortgaged. 1 A. Young talks of the magic of property; but there is such a thing as the demon of property.
Сторінка 32 - Europe. . . . Very likely what Voit reckons as hard or severe muscular work, would count here as only moderate work. Considering the body as a machine, the American working man has a more strongly-built machine and more fuel to run it than has his European brother.
Сторінка 16 - ... the production of eminent men. It seems clear that, taking English history as a whole, the conditions of rural life have, from the present point of view, produced the best stocks. The minor aristocracy and the clergy — the "gentlemen...
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