 | Francis Bowen - 1856 - 588 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased, every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...this supposition be applied to the whole earth, and if it be allowed that the subsistence for man which the earth affords might be increased every twenty-five... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 586 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased, every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...this supposition be applied to the whole earth, and if it be allowed that the subsistence for man which the earth affords might be increased every twenty-five... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 576 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased, every twenty -five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...this supposition be applied to the whole earth, and if it be allowed that the subsistence for man which the earth affords might be increased every twenty... | |
 | George Drysdale - 1861 - 616 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...make every acre of land in the island like a garden. It may be fairly pronounced therefore, that considering the present average state of the earth, the... | |
 | George Drysdale - 1861 - 622 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...make every acre of land in the island like a garden. It may be fairly pronounced therefore, that considering the present average state of the earth, the... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1867 - 298 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...make every acre of land in the island like a garden." Though the word arithmetical ratio is not used here, Malthus denies that in fact, food could increase... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 586 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased, every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...this supposition be applied to the whole earth, and if it be allowed that the subsistence for man which the earth affords might be increased every twenty-five... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased, every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...this supposition be applied to the whole earth, and if it be allowed that the subsistence for man which the earth affords might be increased every twenty-five... | |
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - 1892 - 122 σελίδες
...same ; and that the produce of this island might be increased every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...this. In a few centuries it would make every acre in the island like a garden. " If this supposition be applied to the whole earth, and if it be allowed... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1894 - 166 σελίδες
...whole produce of the Island might be increased every twenty-five years, by a quantity of subsistence equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...make every acre of land in the Island like a garden. Yet this ratio of increase is evidently arithmetical. It may be fairly said, therefore, that the means... | |
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The most enthusiastic speculator cannot suppose a greater increase than this. In a few centuries it would make every acre of land in the island like a garden. 
