 | Robert Nadeau - Business & Economics - 2003 - 278 pages
...slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong constantly operating... | |
 | William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - Business & Economics - 2003 - 288 pages
...slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating... | |
 | Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...he cannot provide the means of support. If he attend to this natural suggestion, the restriction too frequently produces vice. If he hear it not, the human race will be constantly endeavouring to increase beyond the means of subsistence. But as, by that law of our nature which makes... | |
 | George Walker - Fiction - 2004 - 396 pages
...slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating... | |
 | Denis Patrick O'Brien - Business & Economics - 2004 - 458 pages
...increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio"; thirdly, that "by that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal"; and fourthly, that "this implies a strong... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 476 pages
...he cannot provide the means of support. If he attend to this natural suggestion, the restriction too frequently produces vice. If he hear it not, the human race will be constantly endeavouring to increase beyond the means of subsistence. But as by that law of our nature which makes... | |
 | Alec Fisher - Philosophy - 2004 - 250 pages
...acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. 4 [By] (that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man.l (the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept 5 equal.l , , 6 ] This implies ] (a strong... | |
 | Ann M. Woodall - Social Science - 2005 - 256 pages
...acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison with the second. By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. 5I While Malthus modified some of his conclusions... | |
 | Nora Haenn, Richard Wilk - Nature - 2006 - 503 pages
...slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating... | |
 | James P. Huzel - History - 2006 - 294 pages
...slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating... | |
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By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating check on population from the difficulty of subsistence. 
