 ... the human 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 means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and...  The Quarterly Review - Page 3651817Full view - About this book
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, б, Г, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...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 - 1807 - 386 pages
...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries *' the population would be to the means of sub" sistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as " 4096 to 13,...the »' difference would be almost incalculable." '« In this supposition no limits whatever are •' placed to the produce of the earth. It may " increase... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1807 - 386 pages
...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries " the population would be tb the means of sub" sistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as " 4096 to 13,...years, the " difference would be almost incalculable." '* In this supposition no limits whatever are " placed to the produce of the earth. It may " increase... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1807 - 394 pages
...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries " the population would be to the means of sub" sistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as " 4096 to 13, and in two thousand yrars, the " difference would be almost incalculable." " In this supposition no limits whatever are... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 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... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 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...centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years th«r difference would be almost incalculable. In this supposition no limits whatever are placed to... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 pages
...in two centuries, it 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.* The checks to population which are constantly operating with more or less force in every society, and... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 pages
...as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Hence, in two centuries, the population would be to the means...years the difference would be almost incalculable. Upon this supposition, no limits whatever are placed to the produce of the earth, it may increase for... | |
 | 1817 - 592 pages
...centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 400.6 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would...prefatory statement, we naturally expect to learn, in the subsequent chapters, that a part, at least, of mankind are placed in some of these different... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 594 pages
...species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, £56, 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. , -. '. i There are, however, he states, in constant existence, certain checks, operating with more... | |
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