 | English literature - 1756 - 724 pages
...a hundred years exportation of Да ves, that has blackened half America ? 22. There is, in Ihort, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crouding and interfering with each other's means of fubfiftence. Was the face of the earth vacant of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...rather than to the expulfion of the Moors, or to th« making of new feWlements. 22. There is, in fhort, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...crowding and interfering with each other's means of fubliftence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be graC dually dually fowed... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Population - 1807 - 606 pages
...conftant tendency in all animated life to increafe beyond the nourifhment prepared for it. It is obferved by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of fubfiftence. Were the face of the earth, he fays, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthusianism - 1809 - 576 pages
...in all ages to correct. The cause to which I allude, is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it....is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...in all ages to correct. The' cause to which I allude, is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it....is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1814 - 508 pages
...their comfortable subsistence. This law indeed regulates all animated life ; and it is justly remarked 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."... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Birth control - 1817 - 524 pages
...Ch. i. the Increase of Population and Food. 3 stant tendency in all animated life to in- i / crease beyond the nourishment prepared * * for it. It is...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...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 of plants or animals,...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...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 of plants or animals,...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...Increase of Mankind," written in 1731, has said, " There is no bound to the prolific nature of plants and animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering...other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as, for instance,... | |
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Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant oi 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,... 
