subsistence

Noun

Meaning

Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.

That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.

Same as Hypostasis, 2.

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The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. Thomas Malthus

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Karl Kraus

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime. John Stuart Mill

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. Norman Borlaug

The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other vist the human race. Thomas Malthus

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