 | Julian L. Simon - Business & Economics - 258 pages
...third chapter of his eighth book, speaking of population, says, "There is a principle in human society, by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence. Thus among the wandering tribes of America and Asia, we never find through the lapse of ages that population... | |
 | Social Science - 1979 - 334 pages
.... . . It is a perfectly just observation of Mr. Godwin that "there is a principle in human society by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence." The sole question is, what is this principle? Malthus began with two postulates: that "food is necessary... | |
 | Economics - 2000 - 326 pages
...as to maintain five times her present number of inhabitants. There is a principle in human society, by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence. Thus, among the wandering tribes of America and Asia, we never find through the lapse of ages that... | |
 | George Walker - Fiction - 2004 - 396 pages
...third chapter of his eighth book, speaking of population, says, "There is a principle in human society, by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence. Thus among the wandering tribes of America and Asia, we never find through the lapse of ages that population... | |
 | David Benatar - Philosophy - 2004 - 422 pages
...a beautiful phantom of the imagination. ... Mr Godwin says "There is a principle in human society, by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence . . .". This principle, which Mr. Godwin thus mentions as some mysterious and occult cause, and which... | |
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There is a principle in human society, by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence. 
