 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
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 618 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... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 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,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other•s means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1907 - 732 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 but what is made by their 1 From An Essay on the Principle of Population, chaps, i and ii, by TR Malthus [sixth edition, 1826].... | |
 | Hermann Reinheimer - Biology - 1910 - 432 pages
...teleologically prepared and determined. Malthus says : " 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 1 The qualities and characteristics... | |
 | Robert Heath Lock - Evolution - 1910 - 376 pages
...It is observed 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. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread... | |
 | Association of American Geographers - Electronic journals - 1925 - 486 pages
...of overpopulation, and Franklin states 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." The same idea had been advanced by Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Thomas More in England long before... | |
 | Biology - 1912 - 772 pages
...nourishment prepared for it. It is incontrovertibly true that there is no bound to the prolific plants and animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each others' means of subsistence. (Italics mine.) In plants and irrational animals, the view of the subject... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1915 - 504 pages
...nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the pro- • line nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their...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... | |
 | Albert Benedict Wolfe - Social problems - 1916 - 826 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... | |
 | History - 1917 - 362 pages
...and other causes, rather than to the expulsion of the Moors, or to the making of new settlements. 22. There is in short, no bound to the prolific nature...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others' means of subsistence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually... | |
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