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... millions . " M. Say disposes of this objection by tracing the fallacy to the misapplication of the terms " means of subsistence , " for which he proposes to substitute the more comprehensive phrase , " means of existence . " He points ...
... millions . " M. Say disposes of this objection by tracing the fallacy to the misapplication of the terms " means of subsistence , " for which he proposes to substitute the more comprehensive phrase , " means of existence . " He points ...
Side 55
... millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years . Necessity , that impe- rious , all - pervading law of nature , restrains them within the prescribed bounds . The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great ...
... millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years . Necessity , that impe- rious , all - pervading law of nature , restrains them within the prescribed bounds . The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great ...
Side 58
... millions are just as easily doubled every twenty - five years by the power of population as a thousand . But the food to support the increase from the greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility . Man is ...
... millions are just as easily doubled every twenty - five years by the power of population as a thousand . But the food to support the increase from the greater number will by no means be obtained with the same facility . Man is ...
Side 60
... millions , and suppose the present produce equal to the easy support of such a number . In the first twenty - five years the population would be twenty- two millions , and the food being also doubled , the means of subsistence would be ...
... millions , and suppose the present produce equal to the easy support of such a number . In the first twenty - five years the population would be twenty- two millions , and the food being also doubled , the means of subsistence would be ...
Side 61
... millions of men out of the 176 millions then supposed to be crowded together upon the surface of this small island , would , to use his own language , be totally without provision . " 66 The first reflection - and a most consolatory one ...
... millions of men out of the 176 millions then supposed to be crowded together upon the surface of this small island , would , to use his own language , be totally without provision . " 66 The first reflection - and a most consolatory one ...
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Population and Capital: ... a course of lectures delivered before the ... sir George Kettilby Rickards Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1854 |
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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.