The fundamental primary sources on agnosticism are T.H. Huxley, “Agnosticism” and “Agnosticism and Christianity” in his Collected Essays, vol. 5 (1894). Other basic sources are W.K. Clifford, The Ethics of Belief, and Other Essays (1876, reprinted 1947); and Leslie Stephen, An Agnostic’s Apology, and Other Essays (1893), which first appeared as an essay in 1876. An important classical antecedent is David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), of which the best modern edition is that of C.W. Hendel (1955). For a study of this, which was Hume’s first Enquiry, see Antony Flew, Hume’s Philosophy of Belief (1961), which devotes special attention to its implications for religion. Religious agnosticism is treated in Henry Mansel, The Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures (1858). Notable secondary sources include Leslie Stephen, History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, 2 vol. (1876), the best analytical study done at the time of Huxley and one that still deserves this high rating; R.F. Flint, Agnosticism (1903); and R.A. Armstrong, Agnosticism and Theism in the Nineteenth Century (1905); for a modern sympathetic biography, see Cyril Bibby, T.H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator (1959). Classic rejections of agnosticism include Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1960), posthumous fragments given their definitive arrangement by L. Lafuma; and William James, “The Will to Believe,” in The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897).
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Also called Age Composition, in population studies, age distribution is the proportionate numbers of persons in successive age categories in a given population. Age distributions differ among countries mainly because of differences in the levels and trends of fertility. A population with persistently high fertility, for instance, has a large proportion of children and a small proportion of aged persons. A population, such as that of France, in which fertility has been low for a long time, has a smaller proportion of children and a larger proportion of aged persons. Changes in fertility have an immediate effect on numbers of children, but many years must pass before the change affects the numbers above childhood. Thus, a population that has experienced a recent decline in fertility tends to have relatively small numbers both of children and of aged persons and a large proportion of adults in the middle ages.
Age distributions have also been influenced in varying ways by migrations, war losses, and differences in mortality—though these effects are generally less important than the influence of variations in fertility. Yet the migration of young adults, who bring children with them or soon have children in the area to which they move, is likely to swell the number both of adults in the middle ages and of children in the receiving country, while the proportion of aged persons remains low—with reverse effects on the population of an area from which there is a large net out movement.
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Agboville is a town in south-eastern Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It lies along the Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway and the Agnéby River. The chief trading centre for an agricultural region inhabited mainly by the Abe (Abbe) people, it ships coffee, bananas, cocoa, and timber (mahogany, sipo) by rail and road to Abidjan, 45 miles (72 km) south-southeast, for export. At the handicraft centre in Agboville, Chinese instructors have taught Ivoirean apprentices to make furniture from rattan, bamboo, and other tropical forest growths. Agboville has a government hospital (1963). Pop. (1988) 46,355.
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