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" 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 naturalist in Sussex and on the spey - Page 60
by Samuel Wilberforce - 1874
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The Ethical Import of Darwinism

Jacob Gould Schurman - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1903 - 292 pages
...years, produce a million plants. Without adding examples, we may now realize Darwin's general statement "that every organic being naturally increases at so...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair." Hence, as infinitely more individual animals and plants are produced than...
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The Cosmos and the Creeds: Elementary Notes on the Alleged Finality of the ...

William Usborne Moore - Rationalism - 1903 - 402 pages
...condition of life on the earth. If it did not occur, no life could exist for long. Every organic being increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in 25 years, and in 1,000 years there...
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The Politics of Utility: The Technology of Happiness-applied; Being Book III ...

James MacKaye - Utilitarianism - 1906 - 218 pages
...increasing, more or less rapidly, in numbers, all can not do so, foj the world would not hold them. " There is no exception to the rule that every organic...destroyed, the 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,...
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Heredity and Selection in Sociology

Georges Chatterton-Hill - Electronic books - 1907 - 620 pages
...generation. The third factor is that of excessive fecundity. " There is no exception," wrote Darwin, " to the rule that every organic being naturally increases...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and 1 Darwin, The...
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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga (the Yoga of Wisdom.)

Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson - Yoga - 1907 - 328 pages
...organisms that survive are very small compared with the number that are born. To quote his own words, "There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increase^ at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny...
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GNANI YOGA

YOGI RAMACHARAKA - 1908
...organisms that survive are very small compared with the number that are born. To quote his own words, "There is no exception to the rule that every organic...destroyed, the 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...
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The Arcane Teaching ...

William Walker Atkinson - 1909 - 366 pages
...some other life-form. If this were not so, particular life-forms would overrun the earth. Darwin says: "There is no exception to the rule that every organic...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair." Clodd adds: "If all the offspring of the elephant, the slowest breeder known,...
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The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 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...destroyed, the 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...
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The Science-history of the Universe, Volume 5

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - History of mathematics - 1909 - 318 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...destroyed, the 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...
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The Science-history of the Universe, Volume 5

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - 1909 - 328 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...being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if riot destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding...
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