 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 554 pages
...theory is here set forth : POPULATION AND MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. It has been observed by Dr. Franklimthat there- is no bound to the prolific nature of plants...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. This, is uncontrovertibly true. Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms nature has scattered the... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 544 pages
...1826. The main idea of the theory is here set forth : POPULATION AND MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. It has been observed by Dr. Franklin that there- is no bound to...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. This is uncontrovertibly true. Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms nature has scattered the seeds... | |
 | Charles Emil Stangeland - 1904 - 378 pages
...vacant territory; but they cannot increase a people beyond the means provided for their subsistence. There is no bound to the prolific nature of plants...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed with one kind only, as,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 852 pages
...rather than to the Expulsion of the Moors, or to the making of new Settlements. 22. 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 one... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 506 pages
...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...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other•s means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - 1907 - 732 pages
...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...nature of plants or animals but what is made by their 1 From An Essay on the Principle of Population, chaps, i and ii, by TR Malthus [sixth edition, 1826].... | |
 | Hermann Reinheimer - 1910 - 432 pages
...support to the view that nutrition in general is teleologically prepared and determined. Malthus says : " It is observed by Dr Franklin, that there is no bound...earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be 1 The qualities and characteristics of fruits, plants, and trees, for instance, can be completely transformed... | |
 | Robert Heath Lock - 1910 - 376 pages
...his own, as the following extract from the first chapter of the ' Essay on Population ' will show : ' It is observed 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.... | |
 | Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 598 pages
...remarkable passage in Benjamin Franklin's Essay on the Increase of Mankind (1751) : "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 one... | |
 | Association of American Geographers - 1925 - 486 pages
...of overpopulation, and Franklin states that " There is 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." The same idea had been advanced by Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Thomas More in England long before... | |
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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,... 
