 | 1811 - 550 pagina’s
...as 1.2.4.8.16.32.64.128.256., and subsistence only in an arithmetical ratio, as 1.2.3.4.5.6.7-8.9. In two centuries the population would be to the possible...the principle of population still retains its full foi-ce. — Such is the account rendered by Mr. Malthus of the dispensation of Providence with respect... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 pagina’s
...supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions in two centuries, it would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years, the difference would be almost incalculable.* The checks to population which... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pagina’s
...this mode of reckoning, to the possiblemeans of subsistence, as 256 to 9; in three centuries, as 4096 to 13; and as of course there are ultimate limits to the produce of the earth, an end must come,to any increase in the supply of food, while the principle of population still retains its full... | |
 | John Bowen - 1835 - 122 pagina’s
...one. The result, he says, would be as follows : — " In two centuries, the Population would be to the Means of Subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4,096 to 13; and in two .thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable." Here we have a most formidable... | |
 | David Hoffman - 1836 - 444 pagina’s
...256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years, the difference would be almost incalculable.'* The natural power, then, of the... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 1158 pagina’s
...increase as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, H, !i ; and thus, that in two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 13; and in 2,000 years, the difference would be almost incaleulable, were it not that this tendency is checked,... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1840 - 290 pagina’s
...increase as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ; and thus, that in two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 13; and in 2,000 years, the difference would be almost incalculable, were it not that this tendency is checked,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1856 - 590 pagina’s
...256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 13; and in two thousand years, the difference would be almost incalculable." We cannot find much comfort in... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 586 pagina’s
...256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 13 ; and in two thousand years, the difference would be almost incalculable." We cannot find much comfort in... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 576 pagina’s
...256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 13; and in two thousand years, the difference would be almost incalculable." We cannot find much comfort in... | |
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In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable. 
