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" The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome... "
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Medical and Eugenic Aspects of Birth Control

Margaret Sanger - Birth control - 1926 - 266 pages
...natural duration of life. Under this head he enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the entire train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plagues, famines. The whole of the obstacles to...
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American Medicine and the People's Health: An Outline with Statistical Data ...

Harry Hascall Moore - Medical care - 1927 - 724 pages
...described as "positive checks." The latter include: "All unwholesome occupations, severe labor and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague and famine. ..." In the first edition of his book, Malthus says: "A man born into the world already occupied, if...
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Readings in Sociology to Accompany An Introduction to Sociology

Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - Social psychology - 1927 - 1094 pages
...human life. Under this head therefore may be enumerated, all unwholesome occupations, severe labor and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which are...
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The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting

National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1927 - 770 pages
...simple. You note, too, Malthus is not ignorant of the passion of style. He writes: ". . . . The evils of great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine." Here is the cadence of the true stylist, the noble ascension to the...
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A History of Social Thought

Emory Stephen Bogardus - Social Science - 1928 - 698 pages
...human life. Under this head therefore may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, pestilence, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which are...
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Problem Economics

Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - Economics - 1928 - 736 pages
...degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labor, exposure...seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great LIMITING THE POPULATION 629 towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases, wars,...
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Plain Talk, Volume 1

1927 - 414 pages
...natural duration of life. Under this head he enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labor and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the entire train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plagues, famines. The whole of the obstacles to...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 135

American essays - 1925 - 878 pages
...occupations, severe labor, and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, large towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, plagues, and famine, as well as the indirect effects of war. How France has suffered from the war we...
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The Scientific Monthly, Volume 10

James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1920 - 642 pages
...Under this head he named "unwholesome occupations, severe labor, extreme poverty, undernourishment of children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases, wars, plagues and famine." One may without exaggeration add materially to this list, for all of man's...
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Voices of the Industrial Revolution: Selected Readings from the Liberal ...

John Bowditch, Clement Ramsland - Communism - 1961 - 210 pages
...life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing...diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine. On examining these obstacles to the increase of population which I have classed under the heads of...
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