 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
 | Jurisprudence - 1868 - 852 pages
...the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, f 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. la two centuries the population would be to the means...years the difference would be almost incalculable." This proposition was predicated upon very loose evidence. There was nothing in the history of the world... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 pages
...human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. In two centuries, the Population would be to the means...of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 1.3 ; and in two thousand years, the difference would be almost incalculable." Malthus does... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1870 - 586 pages
...human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 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." Malthus does... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Business & Economics - 1875 - 438 pages
...increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 is to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 is to 13 ; and in two thousand years the difference would be incalculable"... | |
 | Henry George - Economics - 1879 - 600 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...means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries, 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable." Such a result... | |
 | Henry George - 1882 - 104 pages
...increase as the numbers I, 2, 4, -, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence an i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ;:. 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to Q ; in three centuries, 4,096 to 13 ; and in two thousand years the dilference would be almost incalculable."... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1882 - 442 pages
...increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 is to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 is to 13; and in two thousand years the difference would be incalculable... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1882 - 430 pages
..."increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 is to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 is to 13; and in two thousand years the difference would be incalculable"... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...geometrical ratio, while subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio ;" or, for example, that " in two centuries the population would be to the means...256 to 9, in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in 2000 years the difference would be almost incalculable. . . . Population not only rises to the level... | |
 | Statistics - 1883 - 856 pages
...the supply of food increases in the arithmetical series of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ; and therefore 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 deductions... | |
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