New Ideas on Population - Hardcover

Everett, Alexander H.

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ISBN 10: 0678002762 ISBN 13: 9780678002766

Publisher: A. M. Kelley, 1970

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. The reality of a considerable power of increase in the human species is too obvious a fact to be called in question, and is admitted by all the writers who have treated this subject. The absolute extent of this power is variously stated by different authors. Mr. Mai thus, resting on the authority of the example of the United States, affirms that the human race has the power of doubling its numbers at least once in twenty-five years. Mr. Godwin denies the correctness of the accounts given of the increase of population in the United States; but affirms, on the authority of what he considers a better attested instance, that of Sweden, that the power of increase is competent to the doubling of a population once in about a century. For the purposes of general reasoning, it is evident that the theory is in both cases precisely the same. Both suppositions admit a considerable power of increase, capable, if not counteracted, of overstocking the earth with inhabitants at no very remote period. The theory of Godwin also admits, like that of Mal D thus, that the operation of the unchecked power of increase, would be in the manner of a geometrical progression. If the population of the kingdom of Sweden was one million in the year 1700, and two millions a century after, it will amount, on the principles of Mr. Godwin, to four millions in the year 1900, and to eight in the year 2000: and would thus proceed in the manner of the series of numbers 1. 2. 4. 8. &c. which is a geometrical progression. It is rather singular that Mr. Godwin should not have perceived, that in contesting this part of the system of Mr. Malthus, he was in fact contradicting one of his own leading principles. As these two writers and the public in general ar...

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