The food of the people, a letter to Henry FenwickLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865 - 61 pages |
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Page 7 - Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.
Page 7 - In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to 10: in three centuries as 4096 to 13; and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable, though the produce in that time would have increased to an immense extent.
Page 38 - Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Page 5 - LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
Page 28 - ... each crop the composition of sewage ought to be corrected, according to the nature of the soil, by adding those ingredients which are wanting in sewage, and which the plants to be grown require in the largest proportion.
Page 13 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, The part which laws or kings can cause or cure.