Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar.
- James Bonar
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![because the forms of industry have changed and the numbers go where the need for them is greatest. At least this is the tendency where industrial motives to draw men into the country are the prevailing motives. Price himself, speaking like Graunt of an overgrown capital, curiously attri¬ butes to London itself a declining population, not observing that this implied that the “devouring” influence was pro tanto diminished. There is an interesting passage introduced in the third edition of Malthus5 Essay on Population, and included in all subsequent editions: “An estimate of the population or mortality of London before the late enumeration always depended much on conjecture and opinion on account of the great acknowledged deficiencies in the registers; but this was not the case in the same degree with the other towns [Norwich, Northampton, Newbury, Man¬ chester, Liverpool] here named. Dr. Price, in allusion to a diminishing population, on which subject it appears that he has so widely erred, says very candidly that perhaps he may have been insensibly influenced to maintain an opinion once advanced.” The exact words of Price are: “Upon the whole” (a favourite phrase of his), “I beg it may be remembered that my opinion in this instance is by no means a clear and decided convic¬ tion. I may probably be influenced too much by a desire to maintain an assertion once delivered. Some time or other perhaps the Legislature will think this a point worth attention.”25 And there](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0210.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
