 | 1831 - 1044 էջ
...nature of man,—one cause that has hitherto impeded the progress of mankind towards happiness—to wit, the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. That population has this constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence, and that it... | |
 | 1830 - 1024 էջ
...food are, and must remain, duly balanced. It is a notable axiom with the Malthusians, that there is a constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it, which, :is it respects animals, ig repressed by their becoming the prey of each other. Observe IWN,vaxVivs,\\xoposition... | |
 | C. Leon Harris - 1981 - 360 էջ
...ideas Malthus invented an allegedly natural law. “The cause to which I allude,” he wrote, “is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it.” It must be clear to any progressively thinking Darwinist that, even though Darwin accepted Malthus'... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus, Donald Winch - 1992 - 430 էջ
...altered this to: In an inquiry concerning the improvement of society ... 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 but... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - 1996 - 412 էջ
...supply increased at a much lower, if variable, rate. The greatest impediment to human happiness was "the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." 95 That some human beings would be "exposed to want" appeared from "the inevitable laws of human nature."... | |
 | David Pepper - 1996 - 388 էջ
...afterwards by lack of room or nourishment, humans, by process of reason, react in a more complicated way to 'the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it'. Impelled by instinct to increase, humans ask if inability to provide for their children will not bring... | |
 | David Pepper - 1996 - 388 էջ
...afterwards by lack of room or nourishment, humans, by process of reason, react in a more complicated way to ‘the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it'. Impelled by instinct to increase, humans ask if inability to provide for their children will not being... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 էջ
...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,... | |
 | 1979 - 334 էջ
...be able to discuss so large a topic in its entirety, but he claimed that "one great cause" has been "the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." For population, "when unchecked," doubles once every generation. Among plants and "irrational animals,"... | |
 | Y. S. Brenner - 508 էջ
...and economic inequality. Indeed, Darwin drew essential elements from Malthus' proposition about the 'tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it' 28 for his theory of natural selection was the reflection of an increasingly confident propertied class... | |
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the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it."* Before inquiring into the truth or falsehood of the idea thus propounded, it may be well to determine for ourselves 
