Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only,... History of Economic Thought.. - Page 194by Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 567 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1756 - 724 pages
...a hundred years exportation of Да ves, that has blackened half America ? 22. There is, in Ihort, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crouding and interfering with each other's means of fubfiftence. Was the face of the earth vacant of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...rather than to the expulfion of the Moors, or to th« making of new feWlements. 22. There is, in fhort, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...crowding and interfering with each other's means of fubliftence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be graC dually dually fowed... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Population - 1807 - 606 pages
...life to increafe beyond the nourifhment prepared for it. It is obferved by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of fubfiftence. Were the face of the earth, he fays, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. . It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1814 - 508 pages
...justly remarked by Dr Franklin, " That there is no bound to the prolific nature of animals and plants, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence." Tendency to exceed subsistence. — If the deficiency of food, therefore, has set a natural boundary... | |
| Simon Gray - Malthusianism - 1818 - 550 pages
...prepared for it, is an observation of Dr. Franklin. " It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth," he says, " vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed, and overspread... | |
| 1821 - 970 pages
...Increase of Mankind," written in 1731, has said, " There is no bound to the prolific nature of plants and animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1826 - 566 pages
...life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of !be earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread... | |
| J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...increase, implanted in all animated life, is the one great cause of human unhappiness." That " there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...interfering with each other's means of subsistence, is a great truth," and shews the wisdom of the universal Creator; since, had it been otherwise, much,... | |
| Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1889 - 714 pages
...for it. It is observed by Dr. Franklin that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants and animals but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sown and overspread with one... | |
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