 | Canadian Institute - Learned institutions and societies - 1887 - 252 pages
...other of their life. Every creature naturally increases at so high a rate, that if multitudes were not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. This applies to the more slowly breeding, as well as to those that increase annually by the hundred... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1887 - 560 pages
...other of their life. Every creature naturally increases at so high a rate, that if multitudes were not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. This applies to the more slowly breeding, as well as to those that increase annually by the hundred... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Cosmology - 1888 - 284 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.'2 If all the... | |
 | Asa Gray - Evolution - 1889 - 422 pages
...organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon he covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding...a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. Linnssus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1889 - 434 pages
...Darwin, " that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that if not destroyed, this earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair." The rate of increase is geometrical. Mr. JA Rowell has calculated that from a single specimen of the... | |
 | Universalism - 1890 - 540 pages
...product. Indeed, Darwin says 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. Even slow breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years there... | |
 | Sydney Barrington Elliot - Contraception - 1892 - 288 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...a few thousand years there would literally not be room for his progeny — ie, not standing room, as is easily proved by any one acquainted with figures."... | |
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - Malthusianism - 1892 - 122 pages
...naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered with the progeny of a single pair. Even slowbreeding man...a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds... | |
 | Franklin Monroe Sprague - Socialism - 1892 - 528 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. . . . The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals; ... it begins to breed when... | |
 | Sydney Barrington Elliot - Contraception - 1893 - 300 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...a few thousand years there would literally not be room for his progeny — ie not standing room, as is easily proved by any one acquainted with figures."... | |
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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. 
