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
| Harold Wright - Business & Economics - 1923 - 198 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... | |
| Tom Mann - Labor leaders - 1923 - 372 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...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." This result is... | |
| Tom Mann - Great Britain - 1923 - 378 pages
...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." This result is not to be witnessed because no more people can live than there is subsistence for. Malthus'... | |
| Clarence Marsh Case - Sociology - 1924 - 1026 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,... | |
| Edward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman - United States - 1926 - 434 pages
...would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and the 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... | |
| Lionel Danforth Edie - Economics - 1926 - 832 pages
...32, 64, 128, 256. Subsistence would increase in arithmetic progression, or as the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. "In two centuries, the population would...years the difference would be almost incalculable." The checks upon the geometric increase of population were classified under two heads : the preventive... | |
| Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - Social psychology - 1927 - 1094 pages
...would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and the 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 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would almost be incalculable. In this supposition... | |
| Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - Economics - 1928 - 736 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... | |
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