 | Thomas Jarrold - 1806 - 420 sider
...scattered the seeds of life abroad with the most profuse and liberal hand, but has been comparatively sparing in the room and the nourishment necessary...rear them. The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in a few... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 sider
...scattered the seeds of life abroad with the most profuse and liberal hand ; but has been comparatively • sparing in the room and the nourishment necessary...the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that i imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of... | |
 | Charles Fothergill - 1813 - 288 sider
...writer, that the germs of existence which are contained in this earth, if allowed freely to develop themselves, " would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years." It is by this profuse distribution of the seeds of life, and L the linwearied activity of the populative... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 sider
...seeds of life with a most profuse and liberal hand ; but has been comparatively sparing in the room and nourishment necessary to rear them. The germs of existence...of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants, and the... | |
 | Margaret Amanda Pattison - 1868 - 178 sider
...scattered the seeds of life with a most profuse and liberal hand ; but has been comparatively sparing with the nourishment necessary to rear them. The germs...the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that prevailing law of nature, restrains them. The race of animals and plants shrink under this great restrictive... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Locke - 1870 - 372 sider
...seeds of life with a most profuse and liberal hand ; but has been comparatively sparing in the room and nourishment necessary to rear them. The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely dcvelope themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1870 - 376 sider
...seeds of life with a most profuse and liberal hand ; but has been comparatively sparing in the room and nourishment necessary to rear them. The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely devclope themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity,... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1876 - 286 sider
...the animal and vegetable kingdoms, if they could freely develop themselves, would, as Malthus shewed, fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand...law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed limits. ... In plants and irrational animals the view of the subject is simple Wherever there is liberty,... | |
 | Circulating capital - 1885 - 472 sider
...nourishment to rear them. The germs of existence contained in the earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course...all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within prescribed bounds: The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law,... | |
 | 1891 - 1590 sider
...in the animal and vegetable kingdoms life was so prolific that if allowed free room to multiply it would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. The only limit to its increase is the want of room and food. With regard to man, the question is complicated... | |
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The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed... 
