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... species were restored to their original place . This enabled historians to date pre- cisely when Darwin read Malthus's Essay in his journey towards what he described , in a much - quoted phrase , as " a theory by which to work . " Taken ...
... species were restored to their original place . This enabled historians to date pre- cisely when Darwin read Malthus's Essay in his journey towards what he described , in a much - quoted phrase , as " a theory by which to work . " Taken ...
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... Species was " borrowed from Malthus's doctrine of Population , " and that it would therefore " find acceptance with those Political Economists and Pseudo- Philosophers who reduce all the laws of action and human thought habitually to ...
... Species was " borrowed from Malthus's doctrine of Population , " and that it would therefore " find acceptance with those Political Economists and Pseudo- Philosophers who reduce all the laws of action and human thought habitually to ...
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... species " in the natural world that would result from an increase in populations controlled only by those checks that Malthus had described as " positive " as opposed to " preventive " or " prudential ” —those checks resulting in ...
... species " in the natural world that would result from an increase in populations controlled only by those checks that Malthus had described as " positive " as opposed to " preventive " or " prudential ” —those checks resulting in ...
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... species and with the ever - branching tree of life forms . In 1852 Spencer had published an essay entitled " A Theory of Pop- ulation , deduced from the General Law of Animal Fertility , " in which he employed the Malthusian principle ...
... species and with the ever - branching tree of life forms . In 1852 Spencer had published an essay entitled " A Theory of Pop- ulation , deduced from the General Law of Animal Fertility , " in which he employed the Malthusian principle ...
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... Species was in gestation ? 20 Marx and Engels , as already noted , had made the connection between the " animal king- 18 See chapters 18 and 19 of any edition of the first Essay on the Principle of Population , 1798 . 19 See J. B. ...
... Species was in gestation ? 20 Marx and Engels , as already noted , had made the connection between the " animal king- 18 See chapters 18 and 19 of any edition of the first Essay on the Principle of Population , 1798 . 19 See J. B. ...
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Page 430 - Of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Page 431 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes.
Page 432 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Page 399 - Did Quattrocento finger fashion it Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat?
Page 394 - Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love ; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan 's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight...
Page 434 - Important as the struggle for existence has been and even still is, yet as far as the highest part of man's nature is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects of habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection...
Page 400 - Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
Page 398 - Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy — Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent Into a sphere from youthful sympathy...
Page 434 - Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence, consequent on his rapid multiplication ; and, if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle...
Page 399 - Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras Fingered upon a fiddle-stick or strings What a star sang and careless Muses heard: Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird.