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Malthus and the Population Controversy 1803-1830

Published: 1994
DOI: 10.4324/9780415105033
Set ISBN: 9780415105033

Set Contents

Volume I. The Law of Population I
Volume II. The Law of Population II
Volume III. An Examination of Opinions maintained in the ‘Essay on the Principles of Population’ & Two Lectures on Population
Volume IV. Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population & New Ideas on Population
Volume V. A Few Doubts As to the Correctness of some Opinions generally Entertained on the Subjects of Population and Political Economy
Volume VI. An Inquiry Concerning the Population of Nations: Containing A Refutation of Mr Malthus’s Essay on Population
Volume VII. An Inquiry into the Principle of Population
Volume VIII. The Principles of Population and Production
Volume IX. A Reply to the ‘Essay on Population’ by the Rev. T. R. Malthus In a series of Letters
Volume X. Remarks on A Late Publication & Effects of Civilization on the People in European States

The Law of Population II

By
Michael Thomas Sadler

Volume Contents

Front Matter
The Law Of Population: A Treatise, In Six Books.: Part II
- Prelims
- Of the Theory of the Supercundity of Human Beings : Its Numerical Errors Stated and Disproved.
  - I
    
    Introductory.
  - II
    
    Of the Possible Periods of Human Duplication.
  - III
    
    Of The Possible Periods Of Human Duplication, Continued.
  - IV
    
    Of the Possible Periods of Human Duplication, Concluded.
  - V
    
    Of the impossibility of the geometrical duplication of human beings; demonstrated by the law of mortality.
  - VI
    
    Of The Effects Of Emigration On The Increase Of Population.
  - VII
    
    Of The Possible Proportion Of Marriages In Different Communities.
  - VIII
    
    Of the Method of Calculating the Prevalence of the Preventive Check.
  - IX
    
    Of The Method Of Calculating The Comparative Prevalence Of The Preventive Check In Different Times And Countries.
  - X
    
    Of The Proportion Of Second And Third Marriages And Of Illegitimate Children In Different Countries, And Of Their Effects On Population.
  - XI
    
    Of The Prolificness Of Marriages, And Of The Proportion Of The Born Who Live To Marry; As Deducible From Registers.
  - XII
    
    Of The Effects Of Mortalities On The Number Of Marriages.
  - XIII
    
    Of the Effect of Mortalities on the Number of Marriages.
  - XIV
    
    Of The Effect Of Scarcities On Human Prolificxess.
  - XV
    
    Of The Effect Of Scarcities On Human Prolificness.
  - XVI
    
    Of the Effect of Scarcities on Human Prolificness.
  - XVII
    
    Of the Effect of the Preventive Check, or the Postponement of Marriages, on Their Prolificness.
  - XVIII
    
    Of the comparative correctness of registers, and on the continuation of that increase in population which they at present indicate.
  - Supplement to Book III.
- Of the Law of Population: Its Principle Stated and Proved.
  - I
    
    Introductory.
  - II
    
    Of the law of population: anticipatory computations of nature in reference thereto.
  - III
    
    Of The Law Of Population: Anticipatory Computations Of Nature, Especially In Reference To The Proportion Of The Sexes.
  - IV
    
    Of The Law Of Population: The Principle Defined.
  - V
    
    Of the Law of Population: Its Proofs Enumerated.
  - VI
    
    Of the Law of Population, as Proved by the Varying Prolificness of Different Countries.
  - VII
    
    Of The Law Of Population: Its Apparent Exceptions Stated, And Proved To Be Conformable To Its Primary Principle And Design.
  - VIII
    
    Of the Law of Population, as Proved by the Censuses of England.
  - IX
    
    Of The Law Of Population; As Proved By The Censuses Of France.
  - X
    
    Of the Law of Population, as Proved by the Censuses of Prussia.
  - XI
    
    Of The Law Of Population, As Proved By The Census Of Ireland.
  - XII
    
    Of The Law Of Population, As Proved By The Censuses Of The United States Of America.
  - XIII
    
    Of The Law Of Population, As Proved By The Censuses Of The Kingdom Of The Netherlands.
  - XIV
    
    Of the Law of Population: As Proved by the Censuses of the Towns of England and Ireland.
  - XV
    
    Of the Law of Population. Proved by the Effects of an Increase of Inhabitants on human Prolificness in different Countries.
  - XVI
    
    Of the Law of Population; As Proved by the Effects of the Increase of Inhabitants Upon Human Prolificness in Ireland and in the United States.
  - XVII
    
    Of The Law Of Population, As Proved By The Effects Upon Human Prolificness Of An Increase Of The Inhabitants Of Towns.
  - XVIII
    
    Of The Law Of Population: Objection Grounded On What Is Called “The Preventive Check,” As Applied To The Foregoing Demonstrations, Stated And Refuted.
  - XIX
    
    Of The Law of Population; as Proved by the Effect upon Human Prolificness of any Considerable Diminution of Inhabitants.
  - XX
    
    Of the Law of Population; As Proved by the Effect Upon Human Prolificness of General Variations in the Law of Mortality.
  - XXI
    
    Of The Law Of Population; As Proved And Illustrated By The Established Principles Of Human Physiology.
  - XXII
    
    Of the Law of Population; As Proved and Illustrated by the Analogies of Animal and Vegetable Reproduction.
  - XXIII
    
    Of the Law of Population; As Proved by an Appeal to the Registers of Distinct Classes of Society in this and Other Countries, and Especially to Those of the British Peerage.
  - XXIV
    
    Of the law of population. concluding observations on its proofs.
  - Appendix to Book IV: Being a Dissertation upon the Balance of the Food and Numbers of Animated Nature