Miscellanies, Volumen2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... human race that it was on the whole a failure , because the number of human beings had always a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence , ' is now becoming , not merely questionable , but ludicrous . Started , so ...
... human race that it was on the whole a failure , because the number of human beings had always a tendency to increase faster than the means of subsistence , ' is now becoming , not merely questionable , but ludicrous . Started , so ...
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... human being ( so he asserted ) returned to the soil the whole elements of the food which he consumed , saving those which already existed in boundless abundance in the atmo- sphere , the productiveness of the soil ought to increase in ...
... human being ( so he asserted ) returned to the soil the whole elements of the food which he consumed , saving those which already existed in boundless abundance in the atmo- sphere , the productiveness of the soil ought to increase in ...
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... human beings , when it had settled long ago that there were too many already ? Why even stop epidemics , which might ... humanity , while the far greater part of the globe is yet unredeemed from the wild beast and the wild hunter ? If ...
... human beings , when it had settled long ago that there were too many already ? Why even stop epidemics , which might ... humanity , while the far greater part of the globe is yet unredeemed from the wild beast and the wild hunter ? If ...
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... humanity , and full , too , of scientific knowledge which gave him especial fitness for estimating the capabilities of a foreign country , Mr. Mansfield went out upon a tour , the only fruit of which is the present book . He did not ...
... humanity , and full , too , of scientific knowledge which gave him especial fitness for estimating the capabilities of a foreign country , Mr. Mansfield went out upon a tour , the only fruit of which is the present book . He did not ...
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... humanity to fold its hands in the stationary state , in the very years in which it is discovering means of progress unparalleled in any age , and to abnegate its own powers just as it becomes con- scious of them . By a series of small ...
... humanity to fold its hands in the stationary state , in the very years in which it is discovering means of progress unparalleled in any age , and to abnegate its own powers just as it becomes con- scious of them . By a series of small ...
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