| Benjamin Franklin - 1779 - 610 páginas
...of new feWlements. 22. There is, in fhort, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their 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 - 1809 - 576 páginas
...prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth,...plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread the increase of population and food. with one kind only, as for instance with fennel : and were it... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Agriculture - 1814 - 508 páginas
...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." Tendency to exceed subsistence. — If the deficiency of food, therefore, has set a natural boundary... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 páginas
...new settlements. 22. There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and 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 páginas
...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 with...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,... | |
| 1821 - 356 páginas
...new settlements. 22. There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and 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... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1826 - 566 páginas
...is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with...each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of !be earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind... | |
| J. C. Ross - 1827 - 486 páginas
...cause of human unhappiness." That " there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence, is a great truth," and shews the wisdom of the universal Creator; since, had it been otherwise, much,... | |
| John Sergeant - 1832 - 372 páginas
...own illustrious Franklin, with his usual sagacity, long ago discovered this important truth. " Was the face of the earth," he says, " vacant of other...one kind only, as for. instance, with fennel ; and wefe it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages, be replenished with one. nation only, as... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 páginas
...new settlements. 22. There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and 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... | |
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