...does now exist, ' The increase of population is necessarily limited Ly the means of subsistence. ' These checks, and the checks which keep the population down to the level of the means of subsistence, arc, moral restraint, vice, and misery.' ' Population invariably increases when the means of subsistence...

...means of subsistence increase, unies« prevented by powerful and obvious checks. " These 'checks, Oud the checks which keep the population down to the level of the means of subsistence, arc, tnoral restraint, vice, and misery." . . * * * « " The great error under which Mr. Godwin labours,...

...increales when the means of fubfiftence increafe, unlefs prevented by powerful and obvious checks : Thefe checks, and the checks which keep the population down to the level of the means of fubfiftence, are moral reftraint, vice, and rnifery ? In 74 General deductions from the Book ii. In...

...need not be infifted upon. The caufes of the decreafing means of fubfiftence arc but too obvious ; and the checks which keep the population down to the level of thefe decreafing refources may be traced with nearly equal certainty ; and will appear to include almoft...

...the means of subsistence : Population invariably increases when the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by powerful and obvious checks :...subsistence, are moral restraint, vice, and misery. In comparing the state of society which has been considered in this second book with that which formed...

...the means of subsistence : Population invariably increases when the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by powerful and obvious checks :...subsistence, are moral restraint, vice, and misery. In comparing the state of society which has been considered in this second book with that which formed...

...this mighty power in China ? And what are the kinds of restraint, and the forms of premature death, which keep the population down to the level of the means of subsistence ? Notwithstanding the extraordinary encouragements to marriage in China, we should perhaps be led into...

...need not be insisted upon. The causes of the decreasing means of subsistence are but too obvious ; and the checks which keep the population down to the level of these decreasing resources may be traced with nearly equal certainly ; and will appear to include almost...

...the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented I>y powei ful and obvious checks, and that those checks and the checks which keep the population down...subsistence are moral restraint, vice and misery. Wherever moral restraint* is wanting, population will push itself beyond the limits assigned it by...

...famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world.' The checks which keep the population down to the level...subsistence are moral restraint, vice and misery, and ' the truth is, that though human institutions appear to be the obvious and obtrusive causes of...