A man, who is born into a world, already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food ; and, in fact, has no business... On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... - Page 308by Charles Bucke - 1823Full view - About this book
| Kelly S. Johnson - Religion - 2007 - 247 pages
...nature's banquet which captured the horror and fear he felt toward the demands of the poor on the rich. A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get his subsistence from his parent on whom he had a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour,... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1853 - 666 pages
...the Rev. Mr. Malthua's work on population is thus given in his own" words : — ' A rann who is bora into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence...parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society dues not want bis labor, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of fuod, and, in fact, has no... | |
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