 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 էջ
...unceasing object of the enlightened philanthropist in all ages to correct. The cause to which I allude, is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals but... | |
 | Daylanne K. English - 2004 - 292 էջ
...people would soon be outstripped by human fertility. There is a "constant tendency," explained Malthus, "in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it." 5 The result, he believed, would be the inevitable elimination of many as a result of starvation, disease,... | |
 | Kingsley Davis - 708 էջ
...most means of subsistence and is therefore farthest from absolute want. In view of these admissions, “the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it “does not necessarily apply to man. It is merely a deduction which would be true if certain other... | |
 | Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 էջ
...unceasing object of the enlightened philanthropist in all ages to correct. The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr. Franklin that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals but... | |
 | 998 էջ
...pertinent Malthus' work was to Darwin's conception of natural selection. The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it. It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals... | |
 | Kinnosuké Adachi - 1908 - 86 էջ
...from so many quarters and for so long a time, as this law. Its discoverer states it very simply as a * Constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it;" but it is really much broader in its operation and governs vegetable as well as animated life. Prof.... | |
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the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it."* Before inquiring into the truth or falsehood of the idea thus propounded, it may be well to determine for ourselves 
