 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...  Essays, moral and political - Page 90by Robert Southey - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jarrold - Malthusianism - 1806 - 420 pages
...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...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 portion... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1808 - 646 pages
...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 portion... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...own metaphor ; and that we may not be suspected of exaggerating the detestable hard-heartedness with which his system is recommended, the illustration...cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has ajust demand, and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 544 pages
...own metaphor ; and that we may not be suspected of exaggerating the detestable hard-heartedness with which his system is recommended, the illustration...cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he hus a just demand, and if the society does not wimt his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pages
...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 - 566 pages
...detestable hard-heartedness with which his system is recommended, (lie illustration shall be preĢ seated in his own language. -• A man," he says, " who is...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... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...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,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1878 - 1002 pages
...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 - Nature - 1823 - 442 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - Malthusianism - 1830 - 650 pages
...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...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 he may... | |
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