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 - 521 페이지 편집 - 1818전체보기 - 도서 정보
| 1969 - 496 페이지
...would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, &c, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 2Л6 to 9 ; in three centuries as 4096 to 13 ; and in two thousand years the difference would be almost... | |
| Adam Kuper - 1994 - 290 페이지
...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." Malthus lived during a period of very rapid population growth. Between 1750 and 1850 the population... | |
| Pamela M. Pilbeam - 1995 - 284 페이지
...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...and in two thousand years the difference would be incalculable. Note that these well-known 'mathematical jingles' were used purely as heuristic devices,... | |
| Mary Jacobus - 1995 - 324 페이지
...etc. In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to io: in three centuries as 4096 to 13 , and in two thousand...years the difference would be almost incalculable. — Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population ( 1798)1 MADAME DE SAINT- ANGE — Do you know,... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 페이지
...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 be to the mean of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference... | |
| Robert L. Heilbroner - 1996 - 376 페이지
...&c. In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to 10, in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand...years the difference would be almost incalculable, though the produce in that time would have increased to an immense extent. . , , Chapter VII . . .... | |
| Julian L. Simon - 258 페이지
...&c. In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to 10: in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand...years the difference would be almost incalculable, though the produce in that time would have increased to an immense extent. No limits whatever are placed... | |
| 1979 - 334 페이지
...would increase as the numbers I, 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 be almost incalculable. Lack of food, then,... | |
| Donald Rutherford - 1999 - 526 페이지
...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...two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.'—vol. ip 15. After reading this prefatory statement, we naturally expect to learn,... | |
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