 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 Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 456 pages
...species would increase as the numbers i, 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. ' In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 468 pages
...species would increase as : numbers s, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as s, 2, 3,4, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the me of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and two thousand years, the difference... | |
 | Charles Gide - Economics - 1902 - 628 pages
...elapse between two consecutive terms of these progressions. Thence he concluded that " at the end of two centuries, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 are to 9 ; at the end of three centuries, as 4906 to 13 ; and after 2000 years, the difference would... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 pages
...numbers i, 2,4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 ; and the subsistence as i, 2,3, 4, Si 6, 7, 8, 9. So 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 two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable. In this supposition... | |
 | Charles Gide - Economics - 1903 - 732 pages
...the population could be doubled Malthus estimated as twenty-five years. He therefore concluded that : "In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 2o6 to 9 ; in three centuries it would be as 4006 to 13 ; and in two thousand years the difference... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 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. In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase for... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1907 - 732 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. In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase forever,... | |
 | Charles Gide - Economics - 1909 - 728 pages
...the population could be doubled Malthus estimated as twenty-five years. He therefore concluded that : "In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries it would be as 4096 to 13 ; and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable."... | |
 | Albert Benedict Wolfe - Social problems - 1916 - 826 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. In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth. It may increase forever,... | |
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - Economics - 1916 - 914 pages
...species would increase as the numbers i, 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 be to the m«ans of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the... | |
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