 | Russell Thacher Trall - 1866 - 324 pàgines
...the same time, the excess of fertility has itself rendered the process of civilization inevitable. From the beginning, pressure of population has been...produced the original diffusion of the race. It compelled man to abandon predatory habits and take to agriculture. It led to the clearing of th« earth's surface.... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 386 pàgines
...have always suffered, from being a little too thick upon the ground ; but as Herbert Spencer says, " From the beginning, pressure of population has been the proximate cause of progress. "^ Pain then, if it is an evil, is a necessary one, and we can no more do without it than a child can... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 pàgines
...have always suffered, from being a little too thick upon the ground ; but as Herbert Spencer says, " From the beginning, pressure of population has been the proximate cause of progress."f Pain then, if it is an evil, is a necessary one, and we can no more do without it than... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1872 - 348 pàgines
...excess of fertility has rendered the process of civilisation inevitable; and the process of civilisation must inevitably diminish fertility, and at last destroy...It forced men into the social state ; made social organisation inevitable ; and has developed the social sentiments. It has stimulated to progressive... | |
 | William Dillon - 1882 - 278 pàgines
...to by any exercise of " moral restraint."' On the contrary, he says : — " From the beginning the pressure of population has been the proximate cause...surface. It forced men into the social state; made social organisation inevitable ; and has developed the social sentiments. It has stimulated to progressive... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 pàgines
...have always suffered, from being a little too thick upon the ground ; but as Herbert Spencer says, " From the beginning, pressure of population has been the proximate cause of progress."f Pain then, if it is an evil, is a necessary one, and we can no more do without it than... | |
 | Edward W. Badger, William Hillhouse - 1888 - 660 pàgines
...dimmis.li fertility and destroy its excess. From the beginning pressure of population has been the cause of progress. It produced the original diffusion of the race, it compelled man to take to agriculture, it forced men into the social state and developed the social sentiments,... | |
 | Frederick Howard Collins - 1889 - 610 pàgines
...which the amount of life shall be the greatest possible, and the births and deaths the fewest possible. From the beginning, pressure of population has been the proximate cause of progress. After having duly stocked the globe with inhabitants; raised all its habitable parts into the highest... | |
 | Frederick Howard Collins - 1901 - 718 pàgines
...which the amount of life shall be the greatest possible, and the births and deaths the fewest possible. From the beginning, pressure of population has been the proximate cause of progress. After having duly stocked the globe with inhabitants; raised all its habitable parts into the highest... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1904 - 140 pàgines
...fertility has itself rendered the process of civilisation inevitable ; and the process of civilisation must inevitably diminish fertility, and at last destroy...It forced men into the social state ; made social organisation inevitable ; and has developed the social sentiments. It has stimulated to progressive... | |
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From the beginning, pressure of population has been the proximate cause of progress. It produced the original diffusion of the race. It compelled men to abandon predatory habits and take to agriculture. It led to the clearing of the earth's surface. It... 
