 A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business...  The Quarterly Review - Pàgina 324editat per - 1813Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Jarrold - 1806 - 420 pàgines
...in some circumstances, not as a discretionary, but a necessary act ; — as follows : " If a child is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, he has no claim of right to the smallest... | |
 | 1808 - 646 pàgines
...p. -H. •f-' Malthns on Population ; who snys, " If a child is born into a world already posEWSerf, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, ho has no claim of right to the smallest... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pàgines
...Malthus's own metaphor; and that we may not be suspected of exaggerating the detestable hard- hearted ness with which his system is recommended, the illustration...if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on wliioin he has a just demand, and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pàgines
...Malthus's own metaphor; and that we may not be suspeeted of exaggerating the detestable hard-hearterlness with which his system is recommended, the illustration...born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsisteuce from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society does not want his labour,... | |
 | 1813 - 566 pàgines
...detestable hard-heartedness with which his system is recommended, (lie illustration shall be pre« seated in his own language. -• A man," he says, " who is...cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society does uot want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion... | |
 | 1878 - 1002 pàgines
...demonstration. The tone of Mr. Malthus was as merciless as his theory. Here is a specimen : •A man born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from kis parent*, and if society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 442 pàgines
...doctrines ever broached: and it is a passage which Mr. Malthus ought immediately to cancel. — " A man, who is born into a world, already possessed, if he...cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1830 - 650 pàgines
...admirably the prosopopeia of Nature is adapted to the system into which she is introduced. " A man " born into a world already possessed, if he cannot " get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a "just demand," (but he may have none in existence,) " and if society do not want his labour," (and... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1830 - 276 pàgines
...consistent writers, disposed to support the injustice of exclusive possession by the few : — " A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, and if the society Let systems crude no more his cranium vex, Or false alarms the wearied town perplex.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 438 pàgines
...It is Mr. Malthus's own metaphor; and that we may not be suspected of misrepresenting the spirit in which his system is recommended, the illustration...get subsistence ' from his parents, on whom he has a just de' mand, and if the society does not want his labour, ' has no claim of right to the smallest... | |
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