 Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence...  The Pamphleteer - Page 521edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Hence, in two centuries, the population would be to the means...years the difference would be almost incalculable. Upon this supposition, no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth, it may increase for... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 610 pages
...species would increase as the nuinberi 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9- In two centuries the population would...years the difference would be almost incalculable.' — vol. ip 15. After reading this prefatory statement, we naturally expect to learn, iu the subsequent... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 592 pages
...species would increase as the .lumbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would...of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 400.6 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.' — vol. ip 15.... | |
 | Robert Fraser - Fisheries - 1818 - 324 pages
...thereby excluded, and supposing the present population equal to 1000 millions ; in two centuries it would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries, as 4096 to 13 ; and in 2000 years the difference would be almost incalculable * The checks to population, which are constantly... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries, the population would...years, the difference would be almost incalculable*." Such is what may be called the fashionable theory of population, and its consequences. The authorities... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...centuries the population would be, therefore, according to 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... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - Malthusianism - 1830 - 704 pages
...nature he • " Clearly immoral," under the cir- should be left"— Malthus, pp. 539, 540. " istence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries, as 4096 to " 13...years the difference would " be almost incalculable V (4) This boasted scheme is, when examined, of a most singular character, and, as will be seen hereafter,... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - Malthusianism - 1830 - 650 pages
...nature he 1 " Clearly immoral," under the cir- should be left."— Malthus, pp. 539, 540. ." istence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries, as 4096 to ." 13; and in two thousand years the différence would " be almost incalculable 1." (4) This boasted scheme is, when examined, 'of a most... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would...years the difference would be almost incalculable." Such, then, are the opinions maintained by Mr Malthus ; and his readers will at once allow, that the... | |
 | 1817 - 626 pages
...increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 1 6, 32, 64, 1 28, 256, and subsistence as 1 , 2, 3, 4, 6,6,7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years tbe difference would be almost incalculable.' — vol. ip 15. After reading this prefatory statement,... | |
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