# The population problem

Author: Carr-Saunders, A. M. (Alexander Morris), 1886-1966

Genre: Population

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77753

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## Summary

(1) Problems of population fall under two headings—quantitative and qualitative; the former have long attracted attention; the latter have, until recently, only sporadically aroused interest. (2) Numbers were discussed in a restricted sense in Greece and Rome, but it was not until the sixteenth century (3) that quantitative problems were considered from a modern point of view when (4) a dense population was generally held to be advantageous. (5) This view was not everywhere accepted, and (6) the relation between numbers and the food-supply was from time to time discussed, and the position of Malthus more or less anticipated. (7) In 1798 Malthus published his book, which (8) was favourably...

## Chapters

- [Chapter II, it follows that it is the female rather than the male that](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter XV, does enable us in the main to understand how the physical](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/22/index.md)
- [part 1, p. 224; Tregear, _J. A. I._, vol. xix, p. 101.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter XV. The subject-matter of Chapter XV will be confined to the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-population-problem-77753/chapters/13/index.md)