 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1895 - 164 strani
...ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes...difficulty of subsistence. This difficulty must fall some where ; and must necessarily be severely felt by a large portion of mankind. Through the animal... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - 1918 - 320 strani
...increases much more rapidly than the second series, and Malthus inferred that there must consequently be " a strong and constantly operating check on population from the difficulty -of subsistence." For the doubling of population in twenty -five years he relied on the experience of North America,... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1959 - 164 strani
...ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes...difficulty of subsistence. This difficulty must fall some where and must necessarily be severely felt by a large portion of mankind. Through the animal... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 strani
...ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers w ill shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes...difficulty of subsistence. This difficulty must fall some where; and must necessarily be severely felt by a large portion of mankind. Through the animal... | |
 | Charles Keith Maisels - 1993 - 420 strani
...thesis depended upon that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man. [means that] the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept...subsistence. This difficulty must fall somewhere; and must be severely felt by a large portion of mankind. (Malthus 1970:71; my emphasis) Malthus's constantly... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 686 strani
...power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. second. By that law of our nature which makes food...somewhere; and must necessarily be severely felt by a large proportion of mankind." Thus the argument moves rapidly; by page 37, Malthus feels "at a loss to conjecture... | |
 | Bernard Grant Campbell - 1995 - 236 strani
...ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By that law of our nature which makes...difficulty of subsistence. This difficulty must fall some where and must necessarily be severely felt by a large portion of mankind.' An Essay on the Principle... | |
 | Tim Dyson - 1996 - 260 strani
...1993) and the Scot, James Steuart (sec Blaxter 1986). these two unequal powers [of population and food] must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly...from the difficulty of subsistence. This difficulty [of providing sufficient food] must fall somewhere and must necessarily be severely felt by a large... | |
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By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating check On population from the difficulty of subsistence. 
