 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 591925Full view - About this book
 | 1889 - 434 pages
...16,778,000 more than it was nineteen months ago. In his " Origin of Species " Darwin declares that "there is no exception to the rule that every organic...would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man doubles in twentyfive years, and at this rate in a few thousand years, there... | |
 | 1860 - 982 pages
...though food may bo now superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year." — p. C2. "There is no exception to the rule that every organic...would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-rive years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1860 - 638 pages
...increasing more or less rapidly in numbers, all cannot so increase, for the world would not hold them. There is no exception to the rule that every organic...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 pages
...rule,.tbat every organic being naturally increases at во high a rate that, if not deutroyed. thc 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,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...increasing, more or less rapidly, in numbers, all cannot do so, for the world would not hold them. There is no exception to the rule that every organic...would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-live years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years,... | |
 | 1861 - 788 pages
...which regulate the increase of animals and plants, can be abundantly illustrated by a few facts. " There is no exception " to the rule, that every organic...soon be covered by the progeny of a " single' pair. Even races of slow-breed" ing men have been doubled in twenty" five years ; and at this rate, in a... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...which regulate the increase of animals and plants, can be abundantly illustrated by a few facts. " There is no exception " to the rule, that every organic...soon be covered by the progeny of a " single pair. Even races of slow-breed" ing men have been doubled hi twenty" five years ; and at this rate, in a... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life " There is no exception to the rule that every organic...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,... | |
 | Illinois Natural History Society - 1861 - 224 pages
...so inordinately great that no country could support the product. * * * There is no exception to tlie rule that every organic being naturally increases...would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slowbreeding man has doubled in twenty-five yea s; and at this rate, in a ft w thousand years,... | |
 | Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1861 - 736 pages
...inordinately great that no country could support the product. * * * There is no exception to the rnle that every organic being naturally increases at so...would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slowbreeding man lias doubled in twenty-five years ; and ut this rate, iu a few thousand years... | |
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