 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 566 sider
...though rapid, is necessarily gradual ; and as the human frame cannot be supported, even for a very short time without food, it is evident that no more human beings can grow up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely produce a famine, it... | |
 | J. C. Ross - 1827 - 462 sider
...rapid, is, necessarily, gradual, and as the human frame cannot be supported, even for a very short time, without food, it is evident, that no more human beings can grow up than there is provision to maintain ; yet it prepares the way for a famine in the most complete manner." For the... | |
 | George Drysdale - 1861 - 616 sider
...though rapid, is necessarily gradual : and as the human frame cannot be supported even for a very short time, without food, it is evident, that no more human beings can grow up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely produce a famine, it... | |
 | George Drysdale - 1861 - 622 sider
...though rapid, is necessarily gradual : and as the human frame cannot be supported even for a very short time, without food, it is evident, that no more human beings can grow up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely produce a famine, it... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - 1879 - 348 sider
...though rapid, is necessarily gradual ; and as the human frame cannot be supported even for a short time without food, it is evident that no more human beings can grow up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely produce a famine, it... | |
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - 1887 - 134 sider
...though rapid, is necessarily gradual, and as the human frame cannot be supported, even for a very short time, without food, it is evident' that no more human beings can grow'up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely... | |
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - 1892 - 130 sider
...though rapid, is necessarily gradual, and as the. human frame cannot be supported, even for a very short time, without food, it is evident that no more human beings can. grow up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely produce a famine, it... | |
 | Albert Benedict Wolfe - 1916 - 826 sider
...though rapid is necessarily gradual ; and as the human frame cannot be supported even for a very short time without food, it is evident that no more human beings can grow up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely produce a famine, it... | |
 | Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 sider
...though rapid, is necessarily gradual; and as the human frame cannot be supported, even for a very short time, without food, it is evident that no more human beings can grow up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely produce a famine, it... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 2013 - 325 sider
...though rapid, is necessarily gradual; and as the human frame cannot be supported, even for a very short time, without food, it is evident that no more human beings can grow up than there is provision to maintain. But though the principle of population cannot absolutely produce a famine, it... | |
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Of the other great scourge of mankind, famine, it may be observed that it is not in the nature of things that the increase of population should absolutely produce one. This increase though rapid is necessarily gradual; and as the human frame cannot be... 