 | John Lewis Gillin - 1921 - 722 pages
...intended to be exact, and the essential of his theory is to be found in his statement that, "It is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." Now, the tendency for population to outrun the means of subsistence raises up checks. Wars of expansion... | |
 | Henry P. Shearman - 1922 - 406 pages
...According to Malthus, the one great cause impeding the progress of mankind toward happiness is the "constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." This arises from the fact that all animated beings are impelled by a powerful instinct to reproduce.... | |
 | Johannes Rutgers - 1923 - 278 pages
...of one great cause intimately united with the very nature of man. The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." Essay, Ed VI, 1826, Book I, pp 1 und 2. right, if he can prove it by division. The great Creator and... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 pages
...replenished from one nation only, as for instance, with Englishmen. The cause to which I allude, is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. This is incontrovertibly true. Throughout the animal and vegetable kingdoms Nature has scattered the... | |
 | Clarence Marsh Case - 1924 - 1026 pages
...object of the enlightened philanthropist 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. It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature Of plants or animals... | |
 | John Wargelin - 1924 - 202 pages
...not intended to be exact, and hla theory may be summarized briefly in his statement that, "It is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it". It is only fair to point out that many of the preventive checks on the increase of population that... | |
 | 1925 - 694 pages
...death-date therefrom. Till-; SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. As regards death-rate and food-supply, "the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it" was much advocated by Malthus and by Darwin, and was probably overemphasised by them, though the foodsupply... | |
 | Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - 1927 - 1094 pages
...object of the enlightened philanthropist in all ages to correct. The cause which I allude to, is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. The check to this tendency is easy among plants and animals, since the lack of room or nourishment... | |
 | Emory Stephen Bogardus - 1928 - 698 pages
...object of the enlightened philanthropist 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. (p. 77-78) The checks to population, which are constantly operating with more or less force in every... | |
 | 1912 - 958 pages
...food-supply.1 His motive was the causes which impede the progress of mankind toward happiness, the chief is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." ' Although his statistics by which he sought to establish mathematically the ratio between the increase... | |
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The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. 
