The Law of Population: A Treatise in Six Books, in Disproof of the Superfecundity of Human Beings and Developing the Real Principle of Their Increase, Volume 1Irish University Press, 1971 - Malthusianism |
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CHAP | 5 |
Of the Theory of Human Superfecundity its Geome | 55 |
V | 70 |
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