 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
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 496 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...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... | |
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...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... | |
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...25 years, "will become larger than the population of England in less than a century," for "There is no Bound to the Prolific Nature of Plants or Animals,...interfering with each other's means of Subsistence." Thus, half a century before Malthus, Franklin enunciated the fundamental principle of the Essay on... | |
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