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Side 39
... human fecundity . In the vegetable world , as well as among the lower ani- mals , we observe that certain species manifest from time to time a tendency to a decline of vitality , and we conclude that some occult causes are at work ...
... human fecundity . In the vegetable world , as well as among the lower ani- mals , we observe that certain species manifest from time to time a tendency to a decline of vitality , and we conclude that some occult causes are at work ...
Side 52
... fecundity and marvellous the potential increase of the human species , still more astounding , in a country adapted for it by nature and the genius of the people , is the progress of the mechanical arts , and the result achieved within ...
... fecundity and marvellous the potential increase of the human species , still more astounding , in a country adapted for it by nature and the genius of the people , is the progress of the mechanical arts , and the result achieved within ...
Side 64
... fecundity of the earth ; the demand for food tends constantly to exceed the ... fecundity of population upon which they form a check . And of what nature are these ... human existence . ” Thus , the tendency is evil , and the checks which ...
... fecundity of the earth ; the demand for food tends constantly to exceed the ... fecundity of population upon which they form a check . And of what nature are these ... human existence . ” Thus , the tendency is evil , and the checks which ...
Side 73
... human increase , I have no objection to make to it on the score of excess ... human beings ? Not the potential increase of animal and vegetable existences ... fecundity of some of those animals which form , in civilised com- munities ...
... human increase , I have no objection to make to it on the score of excess ... human beings ? Not the potential increase of animal and vegetable existences ... fecundity of some of those animals which form , in civilised com- munities ...
Side 74
... fecundity of those animal tribes of the earth , the water , and the air , which , in a less number of months than ... human beings in those young and vigorous offshoots of a great nation is to be taken as representing the normal power ...
... fecundity of those animal tribes of the earth , the water , and the air , which , in a less number of months than ... human beings in those young and vigorous offshoots of a great nation is to be taken as representing the normal power ...
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Population and Capital: ... a course of lectures delivered before the ... sir George Kettilby Rickards Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1854 |
Population and Capital, a Course of Lectures George Kettilby Rickards Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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Side 207 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Side 6 - Hints to Mothers on the Management of their Health during the Period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room : With an Exposure of Popular Errors in connexion with those subjects, &c.
Side 14 - Thomson's Tables of Interest, at Three, Four, Four-and-a-Half, and Five per Cent., from One Pound to Ten Thousand, and from 1 to 365 Days, in a regular progression of single Days ; with Interest at all the above Rates, from One to Twelve Months, and from One to Ten Years.
Side 16 - Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy; comprising such. subjects as are most immediately connected with Housekeeping : As, The Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting them — A description of the various articles of Furniture, with the nature of their Materials — Duties of Servants— &c.
Side 7 - A General Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical ; forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE 8vo. 31s. 6d. M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Side 6 - Bourne. -— A Treatise on the Steam Engine, in its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation. and Railways.
Side 55 - Necessity, that imperious all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law. And the race of man cannot, by any efforts of reason, escape from it.
Side 12 - Kirby and Spence's Introduction to Entomology ; or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects : Comprising an Account of Noxious and Useful Insects, of their Metamorphoses, Food, Stratagems, Habitations, Societies, Motions, Noises, Hybernation, Instinct, &c.
Side 60 - 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 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 in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Side 10 - AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PALEOZOIC FOSSILS of CORNWALL, DEVON, and WEST SOMERSET; observed in the course of the Ordnance Geological Survey of that District. By JOHN PHILLIPS, FRS FGS &c.