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 ... In two volumes.

  • Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
Date:
1809
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    tribes, i. 151. General habits of the Mahometan Tartars, i. 132* Heathen Tartars ; the Kabnucks and Moguls, i. 153. Bedoweens, i. 154. Tribes living in a more favorable soil; the Kirgisiens, i. 160, 161. The Kalmucks who inhabited the fertile steppes of the Wolga^ i. 164. ;, Theory, distinction between mischievous and genuine, ii. 461, 462. Tibet; state of, with respect to the checks to population, i. 239. At- tachment of several males to one female, i. 240. To repress rather than to encourage population, seems to be an object of the govern- ment, i, 241 Celibacy recommended by powerful motives, i. 241. Religious retirement frequent and strict, i. 242. All the brothers of a family associate with one woman, i. 242. Notwithstanding these excessive checks, the population is kept up to tlie level of the means of subsistence, i. 243. Multitude of beggars, i. 244. TiERRA DEL FuEGO; State of, with respect to the checks to popula- tion ; scarcity of food, and want of every convenience and comfort, i. 29. Tithes, a land-tax on improved rents would be an advantageous com- mutation for, ii. 218, note. ToNCATABOo, cccasional scarcity at, i. 106. Towns. See the article Villages. TowNSEND, Mr. ,-liis plan of improving the condition of the poor, con* sidered, ii 436—440. TuRicisH DOMINIONS ; State of, with respect to the checks to popula- tion, i. 214. Nature of the government, i. 214. The miri, or gene- ral land-tax, rendered oppressive and ruinous by the pachas, i. 214. Consequent misery of the peasants, and deplorable state of agricul- ture, i. 217. Destructive extortion of the pachas, i. 218. A maxi- mum in many cases established, i. 220. Eilect of the above measures in decreasing the means of subsistence, i. 221. Direct checks to po- pulation; polygamy, i. 221. Unnatural vice; ])lague, and the disor- ders which follow it; epidemics and endemics ; famine, and the sick- nesses which follow it, i. 222. Late marriages among the lower classes, i. 223. Extinction of the Turkish population in anothei- century, falsely predicted, ii. 66. u. UNION of the se.xes ; early, in New Holland, i. 35. Unmarried persons ; proportion of, in the Pays de Vaud, i. 414. \\i France, i. 428. Those who live single, or marry late, do not dimi- nish the absolute population, but merely the proportion of premature mortality, i. 460. See also the articles Celibacy, Chastity, Restraint, and Marriage. Unnatural vice, its prevalence in the Turkish dominions, i. 222. Usbeck Tartars, manners of, i. 149. State of, with respect to the checks to population, i. 149. Utility, the surest foundation of morality that can be collected from the light of nature, ii. 423. V. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND; state of, with respect to the checks to po- pulation ; scarcity of food, i. 30.