 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable. In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Malthusianism - 1807 - 386 pages
..." the population would be tb the means of sub" sistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as " 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years, the " difference would be almost incalculable." '* In this supposition no limits whatever are " placed to the produce of the earth. It may " increase... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Malthusianism - 1807 - 386 pages
...*' the population would be to the means of sub" sistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as " 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years, the »' difference would be almost incalculable." '« In this supposition no limits whatever are •' placed to the produce of the earth. It may " increase... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1809 - 576 pages
...centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable. In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - Ireland - 1812 - 954 pages
...thereby excluded ; and supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions in two centuries, it would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9 ;...years, the difference would be almost incalculable.* The checks to population which are constantly operating with more or less force in every society, and... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...centuries, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries, as 4096 to 13; and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable. Upon this supposition, no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth, it may increase for... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 610 pages
...centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.' — vol. ip 15. After reading this prefatory statement, we naturally expect to learn, iu the subsequent... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 592 pages
...centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 400.6 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.' — vol. ip 15. After reading this prefatory statement, we naturally expect to learn, in the subsequent... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
...centuries, the population would be to the means of subsistence, as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years, the difference would be almost incalculable. , -. '. i There are, however, he states, in constant existence, certain checks, operating with more... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...centuries, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries, as 4096 to 13; and in two thousand years, the difference would be almost incalculable*." Such is what may be called the fashionable theory of population, and its consequences. The authorities... | |
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In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable. 
