Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, Volume 11Columbia University Press, 1899 - Economics |
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11th Cen agglomeration agricultural Almanach de Gotha Austria average Bavaria Belgium Berlin Bevölkerung birth-rate births Bleicher born Boston Budapest cause census of 1890 cent century commerce communities compared concentration of population crease death-rate deaths decade decrease density distribution of population economic emigration Europe European excess fact factory favorable females figures foreign France Frankfort Germany Hungary Ibid immigrants industry inhabitants labor land large cities larger largest cities less Levasseur London males manufacturing marriage married Massachusetts movement municipal native natural increase Netherlands number of cities Paris percentage period popu production proportion province Prussia railway rate of increase ratio residence result rural districts rural population Saxony Scotland smaller cities social square kilometers Stat statistics Statistik Stockholm suburbs tendency tenements territory tion total population towns township trade United urban population urban sanitary districts Vereins für Socialpolitik Vienna village women York
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Page 158 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 209 - Good work is rightly appreciated, inventions and improvements in machinery, in processes and the general organization of the business have their merits promptly discussed: if one man starts a new idea, it is taken up by others and combined with suggestions of their own; and thus it becomes the source of further new ideas.
Page 431 - States with all our vices, without bringing with them any of those interests which counteract their baneful influence. As inhabitants of a country where they have no civil rights, they are ready to turn all the passions which agitate the community to their own advantage; thus, within the last few months serious riots have broken out in Philadelphia and in New York.
Page 431 - The lower ranks which inhabit these cities constitute a rabble even more formidable than the populace of European towns. They consist of freed blacks, in the first place, who are condemned by the laws and by public opinion to a hereditary state of misery and degradation.
Page 471 - The areas of two circles are to each other as the squares of their radii. For, if S and S' denote the areas, and R and R
Page 475 - rise of the suburbs " it is which furnishes the solid basis of a hope that the evils of city life, so far as they result from overcrowding, may be in large part removed.
Page 367 - As for unhealthiness, it may well be supposed, that although seasoned Bodies may, and do live near as long in London, as elsewhere, yet new-comers and Children do not: for the Smoaks, Stinks, and close Air, are less healthful than that of the Country ; otherwise why do sickly Persons remove into the Country-^//-?
Page 475 - a complete interpenetration of city and country, a complete fusion of their different modes of life and a combination of the advantages of both, such as no country in the world has ever seen.
Page iii - THE proportion between the rural and town population of a country is an important fact in its interior economy and condition. It determines, in a great degree, its capacity for manufactures, the extent of its commerce, and the amount of its wealth. The growth of cities commonly marks the progress of intelligence and the arts, measures the sum of social enjoyment, and always implies increased mental activity, which is sometimes healthy and useful, sometimes distempered and pernicious.