Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians - Couverture souple

Sutherland, Halliday G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406935913 ISBN 13 : 9781406935912

Editeur : Hard Press, 2006

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Présentation de l'éditeur

'...attempting to live under conditions of dire poverty, and the island, with its population of 1,000, would now offer an excellent example, not of overpopulation, but of human selfishness.
My contentions are that poverty is neither solely nor indeed generally related to economic pressure on the soil; that there are many causes of poverty apart altogether from overpopulation; and that in reality overpopulation does not exist in those countries where Malthusians claim to find proofs of social misery due to a high birthrate.
If overpopulation in the economic sense occurred in a closed country, whose inhabitants were either unable or unwilling to send out colonies, it is obvious that general poverty and misery would result. This might happen in small islands, but it is of greater interest to know what does happen.
Section 5. NO EVIDENCE OF OVERPOPULATION
In a closed country, producing all its own necessities of life and incapable of expansion, a high birth-rate would eventually...'

Table of Contents

Contents; CHAPTER I; THE ESSENTIAL FALLACIES OF; MALTHUSIAN TEACHING; PAOK; § I MALTHUS AND THE NEO-MALTHUSIANS I; (a) Malthus I; (b) The Neo-Malthusians 3; § 2 TEACHING BASED ON FALSE PREMISES 4-; (a) That Population progresses geometrically; 4; (b) That Food Supply progresses; arithmetically; (t) That Overpopulation is the; cause of Poverty and Disease 5; § 3 THE ROOT FALLACY • 6; § 4 WHAT OVERPOPULATION MEANS • 7; § 5 NO EVIDENCE OF OVERPOPULATION 9; (a) In the Suez Canal Zone 10; (b) In "Closed Countries" like; Japan II; § 6 A NATURAL LAW CHECKING FERTILITY 12; § 7 OVERPOPULATION IN THE FUTURE 13; § 8 HOW NATIONS HAVE PERISHED § 9· PHYSICAL CATASTROPHES 15; (a) Disease 15; (b) W3r • • 18; § 10 MORAL CATASTROPHES 20; CHAPTER II; THE FALSE DEDUCTIONS CONCERNING; POVERTY; § I BIRTH-RATE AND POVERTY •; (a) Famines; (b) Abundance; (c) Wages ; § 2 POVERTY IN GREAT BRITAIN DUE TO OTHE

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hard Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1406935913
• ISBN 13: 9781406935912
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
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