...unceasing 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,...

...been advanced. The celebrated Malthusian doctrine is to the following effect, viz., that there is a " constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it;" or, with reference more particularly to the human race, that " population tends to increase faster...

...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 life to 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...

...happiness—that 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...

...so absurd as to hold that the growth of population actually exceeds subsistence, but that there is a "constant tendency in all animated life to 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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...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...

...so absurd as to hold that the growth of population actually exceeds subsistence, but that there is a "constant tendency in all animated life to 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...

...man," which had "been constantly and powerfully operating since the commencement of society." This was the "constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." If the "germs of existence contained in this earth," he remarks, " could freely develop themselves,"...

...known to every student, and accepted by every thinker." On the next page we find Malthus's law quoted, "The constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it," and again, a few lines farther on, he is quoted as saying, " Population when unchecked, goes on doubling...