Volume 2

An essay on the principle of population, or, A view of its past and present effects on human happiness : with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions / by T.R. Malthus.

  • Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
Date:
1807
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    Brothers, younger, according to the Hindoo cuftoms. cannot marrv wirhout difgrace before the eldelt, i. 2 q. in Tibet all rhe brothers of a family aflbciate with one fe- male, i. 23^. C CJMPINJE, in Brabant, brought into cultivation from the ftale of a barren and arid fand, ii. 219. Canada^ occafional 'amine among the nations of, i. 70. Cannibalifm, among the American Indians and others, i. 60, 61, 82, 86. had its origin probably in extreme want, i. 60. Cafatjhia tribe of Tartars; ftate of, with refpect to the checks to population among them, i. 148* Celibacy powerfully inculcated in Tibet, i. 2 8. Charity, indifcriminate, wherever it exifts, will never want objects, i. 240. of the Dhedtion of our Charity, ii 34.°. benevolence, like other impulfes, muft befrequently brought to the tefl of utility, ii. 348. its pernicious effects if exercifed indifcriminately, ii. 34.9. the effect of charity upon the giver, is to purify and exalt the mind, ii. 352. contrary effect,—of the fums diftributed by the parochial laws, ii. 353. — of the fubfcription given in fome cafes to the great pub- lic inftitutions, ii. 353. —of the relief of common beggars, ii. 354. oppofite defcription of real charity : voluntary and active, in the relief of proper objects, ii. 355. -—producesdaily advances in virtue, in thofe whopradtife itr the power of giving or withholding relief, vefted in parifh- officers and juftices, verv different in its nature and ef- fect from voluntary charity, ii. 356. beneficial confequences to the general ftate of the poor, of leaving charity to be voluntary, ii. 357. poverty and mifery always increafe in proportion to the quantity of iridifcri'minate charity, ii. 358. the poor muft be left to the natural confequences of their conduct with refpect to induflrv and marriage, ii. 359. calamities unmerited, or arifing from the failure of well founded expectations, are the genuine objects of charity* ii. 360. (Charity :