...etc. 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. No limits whatever are placed...

...increase as the numbers, i, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as ij 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to g; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable....

...predictable result, for Malthus, was catastrophic. 'In two centuries,' he pessimistically estimated, 'the population would be to the means of subsistence...two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.'10 From his calculations, the population would thus continue to grow exponentially while...

...etc. In two centuries and a quarter, the population would be to the means of subsistence as 512 to 10: y possess for that particular species of business. though the produce in that time would have increased to an immense extent. No limits whatever are placed...

...period,] 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." 117 Furthermore, according to Malthus in the first edition of the Essay on Population, nothing short...