Croitre ou Disparaitre (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Croître ou DisparaîtreDans son Essai sur le principe de la popu lation, dont la première édition parut en 1798 et la seconde en 1803, Malthus formula la loi que, par période de vingt - cinq ans, si rien n'y met obstacle, la population croit en proportion géométrique (1, 2, 4 8, 16, tandis que les subsistances n'aug mentent qu'en proportion arithmétique (i, 2, 3, 4, 5.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.