 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...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 361edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - Economics - 1916 - 914 pages
...and subsistence as 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the m«ans of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries as...years the difference would be almost incalculable. assignable quantity; yet still the power of population, being in every period so much greater, the... | |
 | Tom Mann - Labor leaders - 1923 - 372 pages
...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...of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable." This result is... | |
 | Tom Mann - Great Britain - 1923 - 378 pages
...centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9 ; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable." This result is not to be witnessed because no more people can live than there is subsistence for. Malthus'... | |
 | Lionel Danforth Edie - Economics - 1926 - 832 pages
...128, 256. Subsistence would increase in arithmetic progression, or as the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. "In two centuries, the population would be to...years the difference would be almost incalculable." The checks upon the geometric increase of population were classified under two heads : the preventive... | |
 | Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - Social psychology - 1927 - 1094 pages
...increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and the subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to...of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4,096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would almost be incalculable. In this supposition... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1963 - 252 pages
...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...of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries, as 4,096 to 13, and in 2,000 years the difference would be almost incalculable." * In the second edition... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing - Housing - 1963 - 264 pages
...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 266 to 9; in three centuries. as 4,096 to 13, and in 2,000 years the difference would be almost incalculable."... | |
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