 Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession. This is a fund, which, from the nature of all...  History of Economic Thought.. - Page 200by Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 567 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Josiah Brewer - English essays - 1900 - 468 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend upon the amelioration of the land already in possession. This is a fund, which, from the nature of all soils,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend upon the amelioration of the land already in possession. This is a fund, which, from the nature of all soils,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...the melioration of the land already in possession. But population — could it be supplied with food — would go on with unexhaustible vigor ; and the... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Economics - 1903 - 458 pages
...every year. But the sooner, undoubtedly, will the reservoir be exhausted, and the streams only remain. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase of food will depend upon the amelioration of the land already in possession ; and even this moderate stream... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1907 - 732 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Map is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing. But population, could it be supplied with food, would go on with unexhausted vigor ; and the increase... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile...melioration of the land already in possession. This is a stream, which, from the nature of all soils, instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing.... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 618 pages
...increase of food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession. This is a stream, which, from the nature of all soils, instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing. But population, could it be supplied with food, would go on with unexhausted vigour; and the increase... | |
 | Edmund J. Burke - Economics - 1913 - 502 pages
...greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility. Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre, till all the fertile...melioration of the land already in possession. This is a stream which, from the nature of all soils, instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing. But... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1913 - 788 pages
...case in which it might be supposed that food would go on increasing at a geometrical ratio. He says, "when acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied " 1 a diminished rate of production must ensue, showing that, until then, he does not venture to make... | |
 | Edmund J. Burke - Economics - 1913 - 508 pages
...increase of food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession. This is a stream which, from the nature of all soils, instead of increasing, must be gradually diminishing. But population, could it be supplied with food, would go on with unexhausted vigor ; and the increase... | |
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