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2 FEVEB, IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS.
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It is generally admitted that , in an economic sense of the termt short-lived population is a surplus oneand that an excessive rat , e
tion of mortality is thinned is . not Th the ere appointed is good reason means , to by suspect which that an over increase
populaan that of births generall corresponds y morbific * with influences the increase tend to of infant mortality earl , mar and - encourage
riages ) and to render the population weak and wretched y rather than to diminish their numbers . il Grown-up men and women , are
replaced hy the more youthful ; and this rapid substitution of the the youn pr g o and ductive help power less for of adults the is country doubly injurious while it . accelerates It diminishes the
to increase shorten of the the existence population of . those The who tendency produce , of earl more y death than s they is chiefly
conon sume the , and charit to y increase of others the . " ** number It is also of allowed those who that must wherever be dependent masses of le
prevent must peop come their congregate into doing operation so . together , unless , physical special agen measures cies destructive are taken to life to
all It external is doubtless excitements true that to it could disease be would removed still be As present DrChamb , even if
well says : " The machinery of the body was not . made . to last for ers ever , and some parts of it are so madein different individualsas
tions to wear of out general sooner than others . character Hence , we b have various degenera , -
a or partial , y which the maneven later without than any the external completion influence of his , falls into his threescore mother ' s lap s sooner and , ten or average
year . partial If the , degeneration the balance of is health general is , it more is called disturbed c decay and of it nature is disease ; ' if
ceeding broug of the ht heart in into a , strai view kidneys ght . line Constant , & c towards . / thoug progressive final h here dissolution no change new , p must of henomena tissue be lo , oked pro are
upon as God ' s law for all organic individuals . Whether , the march stances ori towards ginal to form dissolution which of the the introduction is machine quicker , and or of moral partl slower y voli on dep tion the ends into external partl ' the y universe circum on the
-- causes subjects is it greatl . " f But y increased the numb , if er not of deaths actuall arising doubled from b these those n which atural y
are known as " preventible ; " and even where the , y tendency to or disease remove —th d e we form may of fairl body thereto believe disposing that the — development cannot be _exchange of d
, y many , Omitting external even hereditary , influences however , diseases , to all the considerati , powers may be and on checked of needs the hy of mortality a the wise imperfect adaptation due either frame to of .
baneful exact premature modus extern decay operandi al circumstances alone of , those or to circumstances , this let when us proceed aided over to the and investi diseases developed gate gene the by
-* Edinburgh Review , vol . xci . f Dr . Chambers on Digestion & e . ,
2 Feveb, In Its Social Aspects.
2 FEVEB _, IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/2/
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