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Thomas MalthusFrases célebres de Thomas Malthus
El prefacio pertenece a la edición de 1798 que Malthus realizó de forma anónima, por lo que en la cita se refiere a sí mismo.
Original: «The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from a conviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundiced eye or an inherent spleen of disposition».
Fuente: An Essay on the Principle of Population. T. R. Malthus. Editorial Courier Corporation, 2012. ISBN 9780486115771. Página IV del Prefacio. https://books.google.es/books?id=0qYXcMM3hqYC&pg=PR4&dq=The+view+which+he+has+given+of+human+life+has+a+melancholy+hue,&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiry9rxo-vgAhXNx4UKHREHAHAQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=The%20view%20which%20he%20has%20given%20of%20human%20life%20has%20a%20melancholy%20hue%2C&f=false
Original: «Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. We are not patiently to submit to it, but to exert ourselves to avoid it».
Fuente: An Essay on the Principle of Population. T. R. Malthus. Editorial Courier Corporation, 2012. ISBN 9780486115771. Página 152. https://books.google.es/books?id=0qYXcMM3hqYC&pg=PR4&dq=The+view+which+he+has+given+of+human+life+has+a+melancholy+hue,&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiry9rxo-vgAhXNx4UKHREHAHAQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=%20but%20activity.%20We%20are%20not%20patiently%20to%20submit%20to%20it%2C%20but%20to%20exert%20ourselves%20to%20avoid%20it&f=false
Original: «I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through life may be considered as the forming hand of his Creator, acting by general laws, and awakening his sluggish existence, by the animating touches of the Divinity, into a capacity of superior enjoyment. The original sin of man is the torpor and corruption of the chaotic matter in which he may be said to be born».
Fuente: An Essay on the Principle of Population. T. R. Malthus. Editorial Courier Corporation, 2012. ISBN 9780486115771. Página 137. https://books.google.es/books?id=0qYXcMM3hqYC&pg=PR4&dq=The+view+which+he+has+given+of+human+life+has+a+melancholy+hue,&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiry9rxo-vgAhXNx4UKHREHAHAQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=I%20should%20be%20inclined%2C%20therefore%2C%20as%20I%20have%20hinted%20before%2C%20to%20consider%20the%20world%20and%20&f=false
Thomas Malthus: Frases en inglés
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section VIII, p. 382-383
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Contexto: Every exchange which takes place in a country, effects a distribution of its produce better adapted to the wants of society....
If two districts, one of which possessed a rich copper mine, and the other a rich tin mine, had always been separated by an impassable river or mountain, there can be no doubt that an opening of a communication, a greater demand would take place, and a greater price be given for both the tin and the copper; and this greater price of both metals, though it might be only temporary, would alone go a great way towards furnishing the additional capital wanted to supply the additional demand; and the capitals of both districts, and the products of both mines, would be increased both in quantity and value to a degree which could not have taken place without the this new distribution of the produce, or some equivalent to it.
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 400 (See also: David Ricardo and aggregate demand)
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Contexto: But such consumption is not consistent with the actual habits of the generality of capitalists. The great object of their lives is to save a fortune, both because it is their duty to make a provision for their families, and because they cannot spend an income with so much comfort to themselves, while they are obliged perhaps to attend a counting house for seven or eight hours a day...
... There must therefore be a considerable class of persons who have both the will and power to consume more material wealth then they produce, or the mercantile classes could not continue profitably to produce so much more than they consume.
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XIX, paragraph 2, lines 1-6
Contexto: The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.
Book I, Chapter I, Of The Definitions of Wealth and of Productive Labour, Section II, p. 49
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter IX, paragraph 8, lines 14-16
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter V, paragraph 13, lines 8-13
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 408
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter V, paragraph 3, lines 5-8
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter X, paragraph 29, lines 12-15
Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 422
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IV, p. 349 ( See also; Says Law)
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book I, Chapter V, Of the Profits of Capital, Section III, p. 279
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Advertisement to the Second Edition, p. vii
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.”
Book I, Introduction, p. 5
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XVIII, paragraph 11, lines 16-17
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter IV, paragraph 13, lines 11-15
Book I, Introduction, p. 1
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section VIII, p. 384
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XI, paragraph 1, lines 6-8
Book I, Introduction, p. 9
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter IX, paragraph 9, lines 1-3
Book I, Chapter II, On the Nature, Causes, and Measures of Value, Section IV, p. 88
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section IX, p. 406
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Fuente: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter I, paragraph 18, lines 1-2
Book I, Chapter III, Of the Rent of Land, Section IX, p. 214
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section I, p. 309
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
