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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Page 73
... produce of the vegetable kingdom at least annually , in half the world still more frequently , and in most cases without the short period of early unprolificness being demanded . The amount of this increase who can calcu- late ? The ...
... produce of the vegetable kingdom at least annually , in half the world still more frequently , and in most cases without the short period of early unprolificness being demanded . The amount of this increase who can calcu- late ? The ...
Page 81
... produce adequate sustentation , expressed therefore by the equal number 1 , in the arithmetical series ; and in the next , when the geometric number should have increased double , and consequently is expressed by the number 2 ; and that ...
... produce adequate sustentation , expressed therefore by the equal number 1 , in the arithmetical series ; and in the next , when the geometric number should have increased double , and consequently is expressed by the number 2 ; and that ...
Page 88
... produce the earth is prepared to yield , the vastness of which baffles our very conception . Is it not more stupid to doubt than to believe , that , still improved by that necessity which has hitherto been the sole means , under ...
... produce the earth is prepared to yield , the vastness of which baffles our very conception . Is it not more stupid to doubt than to believe , that , still improved by that necessity which has hitherto been the sole means , under ...
Contents
CHAP | 5 |
Of the Theory of Human Superfecundity its Geome | 55 |
V | 70 |
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