 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
 | Science - 1917 - 678 pages
...and the pressure of population on the environment. On these two points Franklin writes as follows: There is, in short, 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.... | |
 | 1918 - 398 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... | |
 | Paul Popenoe, Roswell Hill Johnson - Eugenics - 1918 - 530 pages
...it," Malthus declared. "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." His deduction is well known: that as man tends to increase in geometrical... | |
 | Thames Williamson - Social history - 1922 - 572 pages
...was thirty years ago, though so many thousand labouring people have been imported. . . . There is ... no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...interfering- with each other's means of subsistence. If the face of the earth were vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with... | |
 | Harold Cox - Demography - 1923 - 268 pages
...essay entitled "Observations concerning the increase of mankind and the peopling of countries," wrote: There is in short no bound to the prolific nature...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... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - Science - 1924 - 312 pages
...the enlightened philanthropist in all ages to correct. 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... | |
 | Clarence Marsh Case - Sociology - 1924 - 1026 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... | |
 | Madison Grant, Charles Stewart Davison - Aliens - 1928 - 120 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...crowding and interfering with each other's means of 24 subsistence. Were the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and... | |
 | Lewis James Carey - Economics - 1928 - 266 pages
...essay. Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind: "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 plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1761 - 582 pages
...national pride and jdlenefs, and of the Moors, or to the makingof new fettlements. 22. There is in fliort no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crouding and interfering wkh each other's means of fubfiflence. Was face of the earth vacant of plants,... | |
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