 | Henry George - 1900 - 600 pages
...language of John Stuart Mill: " A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civlllzation, be collectively so well provided for as a smaller....over-population. An unjust distribution of wealth does not aggravate the evil, but, at most, causes it be some what earlier felt. It is in vain to say that all... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1904 - 626 pages
...a condition of great inequality of property. A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided...most, causes it to be somewhat earlier felt. It is in rain to say, that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence, bring with them hands.... | |
 | Digby Cotes Pedder - 1908 - 88 pages
...produce (Wealth in its most comprehensive sense). " The niggardliness of Nature," says Mr. Mill, " not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached to over-population." The penalty we have seen to be that state of progressive misery ending in starvation which goes by... | |
 | Edgar Hutchinson Johnson - 1910 - 30 pages
...economic law. George quotes from John Stuart Mill : "A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided...the cause of the penalty attached to overpopulation "n With reference to this he says : . All this I deny. I assert that the very reverse of these propositions... | |
 | Lucian Oldershaw - 1915 - 160 pages
...is not confined to a state of inequality of property, though this may cause it to be earlier felt. The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of...cause of the penalty attached to over-population. It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with... | |
 | Walter F. Cooling - 1916 - 210 pages
...finally embroiled Europe in the present war : "A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization be collectively so well provided for...niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, ia the cause of the penalty attached to over-population. An unjust distribution of wealth does not... | |
 | Philip Henry Wicksteed - 1920 - 112 pages
...with a decisive negative. The miseries of poverty, they say, are the penalty of over-population, and 'the niggardliness of Nature, not the injustice of...cause of the penalty attached to over-population.' Moreover, many of them add : ' This misery is the necessary condition of all human progress. In the... | |
 | 1924 - 1142 pages
...part of their other customary comforts. . . . a greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided...the cause of the penalty attached to overpopulation. . . . It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence brings... | |
 | 1924 - 318 pages
...part of their other customary comforts. . . . a greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided...the cause of the penalty attached to overpopulation. . . . It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence brings... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver, Hugh Wetzel Lester - 1928 - 456 pages
...the law of population, to argue as follows : A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided...the cause of the penalty attached to overpopulation It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with... | |
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The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached to overpopulation. An unjust distribution of wealth does not aggravate the evil, but, at most, causes it to be somewhat earlier felt. It is in vain to say... 
