The Principles of Population: And Their Connection with Human Happiness, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1840 - 544 pages |
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... desire the great evils - Innumerable temptations to which the poor are there exposed - Voluntary Charity , or Benevolence , wholly unable to relieve it- Example of the total failure of the Voluntary System in Glasgow - Popular ...
... desire the great evils - Innumerable temptations to which the poor are there exposed - Voluntary Charity , or Benevolence , wholly unable to relieve it- Example of the total failure of the Voluntary System in Glasgow - Popular ...
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... desire for Colonization - Which springs from Democratic Feeling— Adaptation of these two moving powers to the great destinies they are ulti- mately to work out - Approach of the diffusion of Christianity over the Globe by these means ...
... desire for Colonization - Which springs from Democratic Feeling— Adaptation of these two moving powers to the great destinies they are ulti- mately to work out - Approach of the diffusion of Christianity over the Globe by these means ...
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... desire of acquiring property in the soil , the attach- ment to a home , and the love of the place of their nativity , are among the strongest feelings of the hu- man breast , and which , in the progress of society , are the first to be ...
... desire of acquiring property in the soil , the attach- ment to a home , and the love of the place of their nativity , are among the strongest feelings of the hu- man breast , and which , in the progress of society , are the first to be ...
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... desire is felt , " says he , " in its full force by the poor African . To him no water . is sweet but that which is drawn from his own well ; and no shade refreshing but the tabbe tree of his native dwelling . When he is carried into ...
... desire is felt , " says he , " in its full force by the poor African . To him no water . is sweet but that which is drawn from his own well ; and no shade refreshing but the tabbe tree of his native dwelling . When he is carried into ...
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... desire of bettering our condition : the wish of raising and the dread of lowering our rank in society . It is , as has often been observed , the mainspring of national improvement , and it is also the most powerful restraint which ...
... desire of bettering our condition : the wish of raising and the dread of lowering our rank in society . It is , as has often been observed , the mainspring of national improvement , and it is also the most powerful restraint which ...
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advantage afford agricultural arises Britain British empire British islands British manufactures British navy burden cause charity church circumstances cities civilisation colonies comfort commercial consequence Corn Laws corruption crime cultivation depravity desire destitute distress duties effect empire England enjoyments equally established Europe evil existence exports foreign grain France funds Glasgow globe growth habits human important improvement increase indigent individual industry influence inhabitants instruction interest Ireland islands labour labouring classes landed property legal relief lower orders maintain mankind means ment millions misery moral nature necessity nerally never Norway object opulence passion period permanent persons Poland poor laws population present principle produce progress proportion proprietors prosperity proved Prussia quarters race racter ranks reciprocity system religion religious render rience Scotland society South Wales species subsistence Sweden tendency tion tivation trade United Kingdom vast vice Voluntary wants wealth whole
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Page 517 - Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Page 398 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 516 - There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans.
Page 399 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Page 507 - ... are continually in operation throughout the country, they ultimately impart an irresistible impulse to the national character. The American, taken as a chance specimen of his countrymen, must then be a man of singular warmth in his desires, enterprising, fond of adventure, and above all of innovation. The same bent is manifest in all that he does ; he introduces it into his political laws, his religious doctrines, his theories of social economy, and his domestic occupations ; he bears it with...
Page 510 - This gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God.
Page 506 - America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion, and every change seems an improvement.
Page 385 - Gulf of Mexico, and from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean, there is not one pauper to be found. Such are the customers whom America presents to us. The rapid increase of their culture and population too, doubling in twenty-five or thirty years, must necessarily augment this demand for our goods in the same proportion. Circumstanced as the two countries are, I use no figure of speech, but speak the simple fact when I say, that not an axe falls in the woods of America which does not put in motion...
Page 268 - No ! we will have her to exalt her mitred front in courts and parliaments. We will have her mixed throughout the whole mass of life, and blended with all the classes of society. The people of England will...
Page 512 - The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America,* equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as...