 ... an easy victory over a passing remark of Mr. Malthus, hazarded chiefly by way of illustration, that the increase of food may perhaps be assumed to take place in an arithmetical ratio, while population increases in a geometrical : when every candid...  Political Science Quarterly - Page 481895Full view - About this book
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1851 - 122 pages
...increases in a geometrical : when every candid reader knows that Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it, and any person capable of reasoning must see that it is wholly superfluous to his argument," { With... | |
 | 1877 - 626 pages
...remark, hazarded chiefly by way of illustration,' and affirmed that ' Mr. Maltlms laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it.' * We affirm, on the contrary, and wo refer our readers for confirmation to the first chapter of Malthus's... | |
 | 1877 - 626 pages
...remark, hazarded chiefly by way of illustration,' and affirmed that ' Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it.' * We affirm, on the contrary, and we refer our readers for confirmation to the first chapter of Malthus's... | |
 | 1877 - 612 pages
...remark, hazarded chiefly by way of illustration,' and affirmed that ' Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it.'* We affirm, on the contrary, and we refer our readers for confirmation to the first chapter of Malthus's... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1885 - 626 pages
...increases in a geometrical : when every candid reader knows that Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it, and every person capable of reasoning must see that it is wholly superfluous to his argument. Others... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 736 pages
...increases in a geometrical : when every candid reader knows that Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it, and every person capable of reasoning must see that it is wholly superfluous to his argument. Others... | |
 | Reuben C. Rutherford - 1887 - 352 pages
...population increases in a geometrical ; when every candid reader knows that Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it, and every person capable of reasoning must see that it is wholly superfluous to his argument. " Had... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1900 - 506 pages
...increases in a geometrical: when every candid reader knows that Mr. Malthus laid no stress on this unlucky attempt to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it, and every person capable of reasoning must see that it is wholly superfluous to his argument. Others... | |
 | Simon Nelson Patten - 1924 - 416 pages
...Neither population nor the food supply is at its ultimate limit, but the ratio of increase is greater in the one case than in the other: while the food supply...with respect to the present and past of human society conelusions identical with those concerning the future which he had arrived at by his first argument.... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 302 pages
...of these, he eschewed the geometrical and arithmetical series — "this unlucky attempt [by Malthus] to give numerical precision to things which do not admit of it". 45 He also declined to rest his case on the ambiguous formulation in terms of a "tendency" of population... | |
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