 | L. T. Evans - 1998 - 268 σελίδες
...'a greater increase than could with reason be expected', and likewise 'every 25 years by a quantity equal to what it at present produces: the most enthusiastic...speculator cannot suppose a greater increase than this.' Therefore 'the means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favourable to human industry, could... | |
 | 2000 - 326 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...a few centuries, it would make every acre of land like a garden. " Yet this ratio of increase is evidently arithmetical, increase or It may be fairly... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 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... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 476 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... | |
 | M. R. Redclift - 2005 - 424 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... | |
 | Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 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... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 2013 - 325 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... | |
 | Walter Block - 2008 - 419 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 (Malthus [1798] 2004:22) Every increment of the... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 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... | |
 | Harry Gordon Hayes - 1928 - 600 σελίδες
...the same; and that the product of the land might be increased every twenty-five years, by a quantity equal to what it at present produces. The most enthusiastic...speculator cannot suppose a greater increase than this. Even then the land could not be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio. Taking the whole... | |
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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. 
