 | Eileen Cleere - 2004 - 274 pages
...The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few...animals shrink under this great restrictive law. And the race of man cannot, by any efforts of reason, escape from it. Among plants and animals its effects... | |
 | Alec Fisher - 2004 - 250 pages
...The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious all pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the... | |
 | Jeffrey K. McKee - 2003 - 232 pages
...room and the nourishment necessary to rear them. The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions...animals shrink under this great restrictive law; and man cannot by any efforts of reason escape from it. THOMAS ROBERT MALTHVS An Essay on the Principle of... | |
 | Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam, Charles Zerner - 2005 - 294 pages
...The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.20 By force or by foresight, the geometric power of population — the immensely powerful natural... | |
 | Margaret Schabas - 2009 - 208 pages
...hand; but has been comparatively sparing in the room and the nourishment necessary to rear them. . . .Necessity, that imperious all-pervading law of nature,...animals shrink under this great restrictive law; and the race of man cannot by any efforts of reason escape from it" (Malthus 1803/1989, 1:10). Insofar... | |
 | Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 pages
...room and the nourishment necessary to rear them, The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions...of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the... | |
 | Dan W. Urry - 2007 - 647 pages
...in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetic ratio." Malthus further argued, "The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law. And the race of man cannot, by any efforts of reason, escape from it. Among plants and animals its effects... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious all pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the... | |
 | Diana Donald - 2007 - 402 pages
...emphasising the inexorability of the fight for survival: The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions...of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 2013 - 325 pages
...room and the nourishment necessary to rear them. The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions...of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the... | |
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Necessity, that imperious all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law. And the race of man cannot, by any efforts of reason, escape from it. 
