 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
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1884 - 512 pages
...supplies in a striking manner the fundamental fact on which the theory of population rests, 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 vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with... | |
 | William T. Preyer - Psychology - 1885 - 378 pages
...life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr. Frankiin 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", führt fogar ben ©ebanfen ettoaê auê (©. 3) unb boф erfannte er... | |
 | Annie Besant - Birth control - 1886 - 56 pages
...beyond the nourishment prepared for it." " It is observed by Dr. Franklin," he writes, " that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. ....... Throughout the animal and vegetable kingdoms, Nature has scattered the seeds of life abroad... | |
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - Malthusianism - 1892 - 122 pages
...life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. " Dr. Franklin has observed that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals but what is made by theircrowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Population - 1894 - 166 pages
...increase beyond the nourishment pre- ,/ pared 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 the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1896 - 546 pages
...TAYLOB. LIFE. FROM " PRINCIPLE OP POPULATION." Г~Т 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 554 pages
...set forth : POPULATION AND MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. It has been observed by Dr. Franklimthat there- is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. This, is uncontrovertibly true. Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms nature has scattered the... | |
 | 1898 - 54 pages
...life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. " Dr. Franklin has observed 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 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 the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 pages
...set forth : POPULATION AND MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. It has been 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. This is uncontrovertibly true. Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms nature has scattered the seeds... | |
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