Readings in Civil SociologyEdward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman World book Company, 1926 - 398 pages |
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... reason why war appears normally to engender concern about population is a twofold one . In the first place , as Harold Cox in his Problem of Population has shown perhaps better than any one else , population pressure is always a major ...
... reason why war appears normally to engender concern about population is a twofold one . In the first place , as Harold Cox in his Problem of Population has shown perhaps better than any one else , population pressure is always a major ...
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... reason to fear that their food supply may prove insufficient for their support , while in some countries infants are destroyed in times of scarcity only . It is therefore reasonable to suppose that some fear of overpopulation played a ...
... reason to fear that their food supply may prove insufficient for their support , while in some countries infants are destroyed in times of scarcity only . It is therefore reasonable to suppose that some fear of overpopulation played a ...
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... reason escape from it . " Thus , population has a constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence . If the supply of food were unlimited , the number of human beings would double in less than twenty - five years ( as the ...
... reason escape from it . " Thus , population has a constant tendency to increase beyond the means of subsistence . If the supply of food were unlimited , the number of human beings would double in less than twenty - five years ( as the ...
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... reason- able wants for another 1000 years at least . The rest of the world is more thrifty , or more sleepy if you wish ; at the current rate of mining the known supplies will last nearly 7000 winters . Then there is oil . Mr. Hearne ...
... reason- able wants for another 1000 years at least . The rest of the world is more thrifty , or more sleepy if you wish ; at the current rate of mining the known supplies will last nearly 7000 winters . Then there is oil . Mr. Hearne ...
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... reasons for limiting the size of the family . 7. What lessons did pioneer democracy have to learn ? 8. Show that the spirit of the pioneer's " house raising " exists today . Why does Turner say that in this spirit lies the salvation of ...
... reasons for limiting the size of the family . 7. What lessons did pioneer democracy have to learn ? 8. Show that the spirit of the pioneer's " house raising " exists today . Why does Turner say that in this spirit lies the salvation of ...
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Page 274 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 22 - American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character.
Page 141 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be...
Page 340 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 115 - How long,' they say, ' how long, O cruel nation, Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart,— \ Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, And tread onward to your throne amid the mart ? Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper, And your purple shows your path ! But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath.
Page 276 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of New York ; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability.
Page 114 - Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, " O ye wheels " (breaking out in a mad moaning), " Stop ! be silent for to-day ! "
Page 155 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 210 - ... or to pay or reward, directly or indirectly, those who bring or influence the bringing of such cases to his office, or to remunerate policemen, court or prison officials, physicians, hospital attaches or others who may succeed, under the guise of giving disinterested friendly advice, in influencing the criminal, the sick and the injured, the ignorant or others, to seek his professional services. A duty to the public and to the profession devolves upon every member of the Bar having knowledge...
Page 140 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.