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" We cannot lower the waters of misery by pressing them down in different places, which must necessarily make them rise somewhere else : the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose is by drawing them off. "
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by Plymouth athenaeum - 1830
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An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, a View of Its Past ..., Volume 2

Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1809 - 570 pages
...operations of nature, we may rest assured that all our efforts will be vain. Nature will not, nor cannot be defeated in her. purposes. The necessary mortality...else : the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose is by drawing them off. To this course nature is constantly directing our attention by...
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An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future ..., Volume 2

Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 566 pages
...operations of nature, we may rest assured that all our efforts will be vain. Nature will not, nor cannot be defeated in her purposes. The necessary mortality...else : the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose is by drawing them off. To this course nature is constantly directing our attention by...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 11

1829 - 632 pages
...this paper is contained in the following passage of Malthus's Essay ou the Principle of Population. "Nature will not be defeated in her purposes; the...make them rise somewhere else,— the only way in whicli we can hnpe to effect our purpose, is by drawing them off. In a country which keeps its population...
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An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, A View of Its Past ..., Volume 2

Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1826 - 542 pages
...hitherto considered as so desirable—a great proportion of marriages and a great proportion of births. for the birth of another perhaps more fatal. We cannot...else; the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose, is by drawing them off. To this course nature is constantly directing our attention by...
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Historical Sketch of the Late Catholic Association of Ireland, Volumes 1-2

Sir Thomas Wyse - 1829 - 934 pages
...be judiciously communicated; • " We cannot lower," says Malthus, with so much truth and beauty, " the waters of misery, by pressing them down in different...else ; the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose is, by drawing them off." — Book iv. c. 5. This is not the political economy of Mr. Sadler...
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Transactions of the Plymouth Institution

Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - Natural history - 1830 - 398 pages
...MALTHUS'S Essay ou the Principle of Population, vol. 2, B. iv. c. 5. — " Nature will not be defeated iu her purposes; the necessary mortality must come in...else — the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose, is by drawing them off. In a country which keeps its population at a certain standard,...
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Political and social economy: its practical applications

John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 358 pages
...operations of nature, we may rest assured that all our efforts will be vain. Nature will not, nor cannot, be defeated in her purposes. The necessary mortality...else : the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose is by drawing them off. To this course nature is constantly directing our attention by...
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Political and Social Economy: Its Practical Applications

John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 356 pages
...operations of nature, we may rest assured that all our efforts will be vain. Nature will not, nor cannot, be defeated in her purposes. The necessary mortality...somewhere else : the only way in which we can hope to effeot our purpose is by drawing them off. To this course nature is constantly directing our attention...
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Life and Writings of Thomas R. Malthus

Charles Robert Drysdale - 1887 - 134 pages
...only be the signal for the birth of another perhaps more fatal. We cannot lower the waters of rivers by pressing them down in different places, which must...else ; the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose is by drawing them off." "In a country which keeps up its population at a certain standard,...
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Voices of the Industrial Revolution: Selected Readings from the Liberal ...

John Bowditch, Clement Ramsland - Communism - 1961 - 210 pages
...operations of nature, we may rest assured that all our efforts will be vain. Nature will not, nor cannot, be defeated in her purposes. The necessary mortality...else; the only way in which we can hope to effect our purpose is by drawing them off. To this course nature is constantly directing our attention by...
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