 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 sayfa
...power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. 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... | |
 | Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 sayfa
...he cannot provide the means of support. If he attend to this natural suggestion, the restriction too frequently produces vice. If he hear it not, the human race will be constantly endeavouring to increase beyond the means of subsistence. But as, by that law of our nature which makes... | |
 | Christine Langhoff - 2007 - 33 sayfa
...acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison to the second." "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... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 2013 - 325 sayfa
...he cannot provide the means of support. If he attend to this natural suggestion, the restriction too frequently produces vice. If he hear it not, the human race will be constantly endeavouring to increase beyond the means of subsistence. But as, by that law of our nature which makes... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 sayfa
...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 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... | |
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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. 
