This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1960 edition. Excerpt: ...to the number of child-bearing years that she has been married. It will be recalled that the delaying of marriage was the "preventive" method advocated by Malthus. Ireland is the only nation which has really used this method on a large scale. The Irish were among those whose rate of population growth stirred ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1960 edition. Excerpt: ...to the number of child-bearing years that she has been married. It will be recalled that the delaying of marriage was the "preventive" method advocated by Malthus. Ireland is the only nation which has really used this method on a large scale. The Irish were among those whose rate of population growth stirred Malthus to horror at the 8 Proceedings of the World Population Conference, Summary Report, New York: United Nations, 1955, p. 161. time he formulated his theory. But in 1846, twelve years after his death, the potato crop failed in Ireland. Famine became a grim prospect for the 8 million Irish who then populated the tiny island. Within five years, nearly a million Irish died of starvation or diseases caused by it. More than a million left their homeland for other countries. The Irish thereupon began to marry later and later. Today the population of the Emerald Isle is only 3 million, less than half of what it was when Malthus examined its condition with such dread. To be sure, delayed marriage as practiced by the Irish does not appear to be an ideal solution. It is hardly suitable for an individual when it might cause greater evils--for example, the practice of sins of impurity outside of marriage. Nevertheless, there can be no denying the fact that the Irish of today enjoy far higher standards of relative prosperity than did their forebears of a century ago. In addition to lowering the birth rate, delayed marriages would have other advantages. In underdeveloped countries, where education is badly needed, the extra years before marriage might well be spent in preparing for the responsibilities of adulthood. Young men and women might devote more time to acquiring information to enable them to be better parents as well as to improve their...
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Very Good. 1960. Unknown Binding. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Cover is lightly sunned. Previous owners name to half title page, remains very good.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
