The American Magazine of Civics, Том 5

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Andrew J. Palm, Henry Randall Waite
Civics Publishing, 1894
 

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Сторінка 537 - A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided for as a smaller The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached to over-population.
Сторінка 451 - This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Сторінка 537 - ... existing habits of the people, under such an encouragement, it undoubtedly would in little more than twenty years, what would then be their condition? Unless the arts of production were in the same time improved in an almost unexampled degree, the inferior soils which must be resorted to, and the more laborious and scantily remunerative cultivation which must be employed on the superior soils, to procure food for so much larger a population, would, by an insuperable necessity, render every individual...
Сторінка 538 - I assert that in any given state of civilization a greater number of people can collectively be better provided for than a smaller. I assert that the injustice of society, not the niggardliness of nature, is the cause of the want and misery which the current theory attributes to overpopulation. I assert that the new mouths which an increasing population calls into existence require no more food than the old ones, while the hands they bring with them can in the natural order of things produce more....
Сторінка 472 - Treasury notes, and made them legal tender for payment of private debts and all public dues except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. These notes became the circulating medium to a large extent.
Сторінка 537 - I assert that the very reverse of these propositions is true. I assert that in any given state of civilization a greater number of people can collectively be better provided for than a smaller. I assert that the injustice of society, not the niggardliness of nature, is the cause of the want and misery which the current theory attributes to over-population. I assert that the new mouths which an increasing population calls into existence require no more food than the old ones, while the hands they...
Сторінка 536 - ... supply. And manifestly, this excess of demand over supply is perennial : this pressure of population, of which it is the index, cannot be eluded. Though by the emigration that takes place when the pressure arrives at a certain intensity, temporary relief is from time to time obtained ; yet, as by this process, all habitable countries must become peopled, it follows that in the end, the pressure, whatever it may then be, must be borne in full.
Сторінка 537 - I assert that the injustice of society, and not the niggardliness of nature, is the cause of want and misery which the current theory attributes to overpopulation. I assert that the new mouths which an increasing population calls into existence require no more food than the old ones, while the hands they bring with them can, in the natural order of things, produce more.
Сторінка 537 - ... the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much. If all instruments of production were held in joint property by the whole people and the produce divided with perfect equality among them, and if in a society thus constituted industry were as energetic and the produce as ample as at...

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