 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1902 - 238 pages
...is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by...doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. Linnseus has... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - Civilization - 1902 - 558 pages
...exception," says Darwin, "to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair." 1 The increase of life, as Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace points out, is always in a geometrical ratio.... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - Civilization - 1902 - 588 pages
...slow-breeding man," says Darwin, "has doubled in twenty-five years, and, at this rate, in less than a thousand years there would literally not be standing room for his progeny." 2 Of every form of life in the world the same law holds good : its rate of increase tends to overbalance... | |
 | Dennis Hird - Evolution - 1903 - 260 pages
...is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by...doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. "Linnaeus has... | |
 | William Usborne Moore - Rationalism - 1903 - 402 pages
...did not occur, no life could exist for long. Every organic being increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by...single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in 25 years, and in 1,000 years there would not be standing-room for his progeny. If all the offspring... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1903 - 292 pages
...Darwin's general statement "that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair." Hence, as infinitely more individual animals and plants are produced than can possibly survive, nature... | |
 | James Orton, Charles Wright Dodge - Zoology - 1903 - 550 pages
...is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair." If the increase of the human race were not checked, there would not be standing room for the descendants... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath - Zoology - 1905 - 676 pages
...Even slow-breeding man," says Darwin, " has doubled in twenty-five years. At this rate in less than a thousand years there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals. It begins breeding when thirty years... | |
 | James MacKaye - Utilitarianism - 1906 - 218 pages
...is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by...doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny." 1 Competition... | |
 | Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson - Yoga - 1907 - 328 pages
...is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increase^ at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by...doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate in less than a thousand years there would literally not be standing room for the progeny." It has been... | |
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There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. 
