Population And Capital; Being a Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford in 1853-4
Population And Capital; Being a Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford in 1853-4
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i. p. 520.
t That is, assuming it to be perfectly unchecked.
Digitized by VjOOQIC POPULATION. 185 of France from exceeding fifty-three millions at the peace. There must, then, be some other cause more potent than war which sets limits to the possible augmentation of the species." * M. Say then inquires into the eifectfl- of pestilence, taking, as illustrations, some of the most destructive plagues on record, such as that of the year 1348, which is said by some historians to have carried off one...-fourth of the whole inhabitants of France.
Admitting this statement — probably much exag- gerated — to be true, and that the number thus swept off was not less than three millions of souls, M.
Say asserts, notwithstanding, that even this fright- ftd scourge would not have prevented the people of France, had no other obstacle restrained their in-- crea^ey from doubling their numbers in twenty-four years. Respecting famines, he comes to a similar con- clusion. " Let us suppose," he says, " a famine which cuts off 1,200,000 persons — that is, the full amount of the possible increase in one year in France — suppose it even to destroy double that nmnber, — it would be a dreadful famine, certainly, which should cause the death of more than two millions of people — nevertheless, it would only cut off the produce of two years of population ; and, as we know by experience, that famines — at all events severe ones — do not happen once in ten years, there would be always, at least, a proportion of eight years to two during which population would proceed ac- cording to the rule before stated." " If this is the case," he continues, " with regard ♦ Cours d'Econoinie Politique, vol.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
i. p. 520.
t That is, assuming it to be perfectly unchecked.
Digitized by VjOOQIC POPULATION. 185 of France from exceeding fifty-three millions at the peace. There must, then, be some other cause more potent than war which sets limits to the possible augmentation of the species." * M. Say then inquires into the eifectfl- of pestilence, taking, as illustrations, some of the most destructive plagues on record, such as that of the year 1348, which is said by some historians to have carried off one...-fourth of the whole inhabitants of France.
Admitting this statement — probably much exag- gerated — to be true, and that the number thus swept off was not less than three millions of souls, M.
Say asserts, notwithstanding, that even this fright- ftd scourge would not have prevented the people of France, had no other obstacle restrained their in-- crea^ey from doubling their numbers in twenty-four years. Respecting famines, he comes to a similar con- clusion. " Let us suppose," he says, " a famine which cuts off 1,200,000 persons — that is, the full amount of the possible increase in one year in France — suppose it even to destroy double that nmnber, — it would be a dreadful famine, certainly, which should cause the death of more than two millions of people — nevertheless, it would only cut off the produce of two years of population ; and, as we know by experience, that famines — at all events severe ones — do not happen once in ten years, there would be always, at least, a proportion of eight years to two during which population would proceed ac- cording to the rule before stated." " If this is the case," he continues, " with regard ♦ Cours d'Econoinie Politique, vol.
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