 | John Cairns - 1998 - 276 pages
...the Increase of Mankind, he produces the following magnificent generalization. "There is in short, no Bound to the prolific Nature of Plants or Animals,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others Means of Subsistence. Was the Face of the Earth vacant of other Plants, it might be gradually... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 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,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others Means of Subsistence. Was the Face of the Earth vacant of other Plants, it might be gradually... | |
 | Julian Lincoln Simon - 162 pages
...biologists' views about human ecology. This is Malthus's description of Benjamin Franklin's analysis: It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others' means of sustenance. — This is incontrovertibly true. — In plants and animals the view... | |
 | 2000 - 724 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... | |
 | 2000 - 344 pages
...to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." In illustration, he quotes Benjamin Franklin. "It is observed by Dr. Franklin that there is no bound...prolific nature of plants or animals but what is made by thtir crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth,... | |
 | S. Chandrasekhar - 2002 - 238 pages
...life 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...interfering with each other's means of subsistence Throughout the animal and vegetable kingdoms, nature has scattered the seeds of life abroad with the... | |
 | Ernest B. Hook - 2002 - 398 pages
...cases are ;i) Benjamin Franklin's remark in t75t that "there is no bound to the prolific nature ol plants or animals but what is made by their crowding...interfering with each other's means of subsistence," which finally "hore fruit t07 years later when Dartvin and Wallace presented the theory of natural... | |
 | Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 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 S 6 The Principle of Population crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were... | |
 | Patricia James - 1979 - 560 pages
...by a hundred years exportation of slaves, that has blackened half America? . . . 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... | |
 | Aristide R. Zolberg - 2006 - 686 pages
...decades later. In his conclusion, Franklin returns to natural laws, asserting that "there is in short, no Bound to the prolific Nature of Plants or Animals,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each others Means of Subsistence." Much as in the absence of other plants, the earth might be gradually... | |
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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,... 
