Volume 1

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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    O, / Blrtht, Deaths, and MMria%*(> 6CI wbi'i ' dc»th« had exceeded the births above one third, and th* four or five following year* / o/j'^i:. 1 ■ '> of b;rtbt. 'I he e/*/e//,o, of the proportion* of births to mar- riage* are 42 to 10, and 34 to 10, the mean of the 6% y&H 38 to jo. The r».n. .;' tablet oo.-.tain fimihr refuln, but *h'fe b<; f»jf/j'' * to f)jow ?h' vana- t;onty wbjcb are continually o. .r-.'^ 1 he proportion*of the birth* mA m-.m ■■■.:>< a* well at of the dea>ht, to the //ho!- j>opuJa» or;. ft wjD be oblcrved, that the leafl variable of the proportions is that which the births and mar;bear to each other; and the obvious re* fori ... tha1 th>s proportion its principally if>- fluenocd by the prolifickoefiof marriages, which •a:': notof'courfe beTA-je'-ttoj'/'-a* '..oan;>ev We can bardlyindccd f ;ppo<e, 1 hat the ;,roJjfjc>.n.';<t of noarm;>et fhouvJ vary fo much at the different proper' :ont of birth* to marriajf-i in the tablet. ; or i'e it ncceffa ry that it mould, as another caufe will co- 'j . oute to produce the fame eifeet. The birth* which are contemporary with the mar- r ; .c* of any particular year be)oc;> or n- <;,a31y to marriages which had taken place ibme year* be- fy&t and therefore, if for four or five years a larr'