 | Frederick Charles Krepp - 1867 - 240 pages
...ever remain unpunished ; and the time will probably come for England, sooner than for other countries, when with all her wealth in gold, iron, and coal, she will be unable to buy one thousandth part of the food which she has, during hundreds of years, thrown so recklessly away!'... | |
 | 1898 - 456 pages
...impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of Nature should for ever remain unpunished ; and the time will probably come for England sooner...land, the more surely and quickly will the finite stocks of nitrogen locked up in the soils of the world become exhausted. The store of nitrogen in the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Manufactures - 1898 - 742 pages
...impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of nature should for ever remain unpunished; and the time will probably come for England, sooner...country, when, with all her wealth in gold, iron, and eoal, she will be unable to buy one-thousandth part of the food which she has, during hundreds of years,... | |
 | William Crookes, C. Wood Davis - 1899 - 228 pages
...impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of Nature should for ever remain unpunished ; and the time will probably come for England sooner...land, the more surely and quickly will the finite stocks of nitrogen locked up in the soils of the world become exhausted. Let us remember that the plant... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1899 - 1384 pages
...impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of nature should forever remain unpunished; and the time will probably come for England sooner...land, the more surely and quickly will the finite stocks of nitrogen locked up in the soils of the world become exhausted. Let us remember that the plant... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1899 - 1456 pages
...impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of Nature should for ever remain unpunished ; and the time will probably come for England sooner...land, the more surely and quickly will the finite stocks of nitrogen locked up in the soils of the world become exhausted. Let us remember that the plant... | |
 | Sir George Newman - 1899 - 400 pages
...of sewage when it is passed into the sea. As the President of the British Association pointed out,' the more widely this wasteful system is extended,...land, the more surely and quickly will the finite stocks of nitrogen, locked up in the soils of the world, become exhausted. Let us remember that the... | |
 | William Crookes, C. Wood Davis, John Hyde - 1900 - 308 pages
...impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of Nature should for ever remain unpunished ; and the time will probably come for England sooner...returning to the sea what we have taken from the land, the 38 The World's Wheat Supply more surely and quickly will the finite stocks of nitrogen locked up in... | |
 | U.S. Bureau of plant industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry - 1905 - 144 pages
...impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of nature should forever remain unpunished, and the time will probably come for England, sooner...in gold, iron, and coal, she will be unable to buy the one-thousandth part of the food which she has during hundreds of years thrown recklessly away.... | |
 | George Vivian Poore - 1902 - 326 pages
...of Nature should for ever remain unpunished, and the time will probably come for England sooner than any other country when, with all her wealth in gold,...extended, recklessly returning to the sea what we have TILLAGE 101 taken from the land, the more surely and quickly will the finite stocks of nitrogen locked... | |
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England than a scarcity of fertilisers — it means a scarcity of food. It is impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of Nature should for ever remain unpunished ; and the time will probably come for England sooner than for any other... 
