 | 1912 - 772 pages
...nourishment prepared for it. It is incontrovertibly true that there is no bound to the prolific plants and animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each others' means of subsistence. (Italics mine.) In plants and irrational animals, the view of the subject... | |
 | 1912 - 772 pages
...nourishment prepared for it. It is incontrovertibly true that there is no bound to the prolific plants and animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each others' means of subsistence. (Italics mine.) In plants and irrational animals, the view of the subject... | |
 | George Drysdale - 1876 - 804 pages
...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...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the lace of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with... | |
 | 1917 - 678 pages
...points Franklin writes as follows: There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants and- 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... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1917 - 672 pages
...points Franklin writes as follows: There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants and 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... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1884 - 512 pages
...Franklin, which supplies in a striking manner the fundamental fact on which the theory of population rests, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants...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... | |
 | William T. Preyer - 1885 - 378 pages
...all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr. Frankiin that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of subsistence", führt fogar ben ©ebanfen ettoaê auê (©. 3) unb boф erfannte er... | |
 | Annie Besant - 1886 - 56 pages
...to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." " It is observed by Dr. Franklin," he writes, " that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. ....... Throughout the animal and vegetable kingdoms, Nature has scattered the seeds of life abroad... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1892 - 798 pages
...subsistence." Their power of procuring food set a limit, but nothing else did. " There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...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... | |
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - 1892 - 122 pages
...in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. " Dr. Franklin has observed that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals but what is made by theircrowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he... | |
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Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as, for instance, with fennel: and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only,... 
