Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel : and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only,... Science - Page 4391917Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1756 - 724 pages
...animals, but what is made by their crouding and interfering with each other's means of fubfiftence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually fowed and overfprcad with one kind only ; as, for inftance, with fennel: and were it empty of other... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...th« making of new feWlements. 22. There is, in fhort, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of fubliftence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be graC dually dually fowed... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Population - 1807 - 606 pages
...for it. It is obferved by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of fubfiftence. Were the face of the earth, he fays, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 pages
...for it. . It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each others means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1814 - 508 pages
...justly remarked by Dr Franklin, " That there is no bound to the prolific nature of animals and plants, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence." Tendency to exceed subsistence. — If the deficiency of food, therefore, has set a natural boundary... | |
| Simon Gray - Malthusianism - 1818 - 550 pages
...Franklin. " It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth," he says, " vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed, and overspread... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...the making of new settlements. 22. There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering...instance, with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabit. ants, it might, in a few ages, be replenished from one nation only, as for instance, with... | |
| 1821 - 970 pages
...Franklin, who, in " Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind," written in 1731, has said, " There is no bound to the prolific nature of plants and animals,...interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Population - 1826 - 566 pages
...for it. It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread... | |
| J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...one great cause of human unhappiness." That " there is no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence, is a great truth," and shews the wisdom of the universal Creator; since, had it been otherwise, much,... | |
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