32 examples of over-populations in sentences

XIV THE OVER-POPULATION

Some cheerful and rather innocent people insist that because of the over-population difficulty wars must go on for ever.

No, War is no solution for the over-population question.

(2) If so, what is the remedy? That over-population is in certain localities a serious difficulty few would deny.

There is over-population certainly, but it is an over-population (as any one may see who walks through the West End of London or the corresponding quarters of any of our large towns) of idlers and futile people, who are a burden to the nation.

There is over-population certainly, but it is an over-population (as any one may see who walks through the West End of London or the corresponding quarters of any of our large towns) of idlers and futile people, who are a burden to the nation.

With our extraordinary industrial systemor want of systemit commonly happens that the abundance of ill-paid or unemployed workers at one end of the social scale, by reducing the rates of wages and so increasing the rates of dividends, actually creates a greater abundance of unemployed rich at the other end; but neither excess points in itself to over-population only to a diseased state of distribution.

All this, however, does not prove that a genuine over-population difficulty may not occur even now in localities, and possibly in some far future time over the whole earth.

FOOTNOTES: Militating also against the idea of over-population is the fact that so much of our agricultural land is obviously uncared for and neglected.

It is true that the effects of over-population are checked to a certain extent by those powerful agencies which have been at work since the beginning of the world.

That the evils of over-population are real, and not imaginary, no one acquainted with the state of society in the present day can possibly deny.

So you have the evils of prostitution substituted for the evils of over-population.

But there is another view of this subject, that Knowlton intended to reconcile with marriage the prevention of over-population.

Upon the perusal of this work, I cannot bring myself to doubt that he honestly believed that the remedies he proposed were less evils than even celibacy or over-population on the one hand, or the prevention of marriage on the other handin that honesty of intention I entirely concur.

But whether, in his desire to reconcile marriage with a check on over-population, he did not overlook one very important consideration connected with that part of society which should abuse it, is another and a very serious consideration.

That the discussion and recommendation of checks to over-population after marriage is perfectly lawful, and that there is in the advocacy and recommendations contained in the book 'Fruits of Philosophy' nothing that is prurient or calculated to inflame the passions.

Butand the more you study the Polynesian, the subtler are his strange laws and taboosthe main provision in the Arioi constitution was undoubtedly conceived in the desire to prevent over-population.

It is all nonsense to talk about over-population, when the world is three parts empty and waiting to be occupied.

POPULATION Over-population; Malthusthe danger of applying his prudential check; his originality; his phrase of misery check is in many cases too severe; decaying races and the cause of decay.

Over-population and its attendant miseries may not improbably become a more serious subject of consideration than it ever yet has been, owing to improved sanatation and consequent diminution of the mortality of children, and to the filling up of the spare places of the earth which are still void and able to receive the overflow of Europe.

The check to over-population mainly advocated by Malthus is a prudential delay in the time of marriage; but the practice of such a doctrine would assuredly be limited, and if limited it would be most prejudicial to the race, as I have pointed out in Hereditary Genius, but may be permitted to do so again.

They would go onsafe for ever, living their little pigmy lives, doing pigmy kindnesses and pigmy cruelties each to the other; they might even perhaps attain a sort of pigmy millennium, make an end to war, make an end to over-population, sit down in a world-wide city to practise pigmy arts, worshipping one another till the world begins to freeze...."

Consequently, as their families increased, the Jews found this narrow strip of country was not sufficient to maintain them, and, as is always the case, over-population and over-crowding was followed by great poverty. (2) Then there had evidently been a severe famine, which had made matters worse, for there had been numbers of mouths to feed and barely anything to feed them on.

Over-population, famine, tribute, it was no wonder that the people were so poor.

Soon to the constant pressure of the desert population on the east was added that of over-population, so that necessity, as well as ambition, impelled them to cross the Jordan to seek homes among the hills to the west.

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