food-getting

In short, socialism is an improved food-getting efficiency.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

And high as the food-getting efficiency may soar, population is bound to soar after it.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

Undreamed-of efficiencies in food-getting may be achieved, but, soon or late, man will find himself face to face with Malthus 'grim law.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

Nor will the fecund millions in the slums and labour-ghettos, who to-day die of all the ills due to chronic underfeeding and overcrowding, and who die with their fecundity largely unrealised, die in that future day when the increased food-getting efficiency of socialism will give them all they want to eat.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

And in the matter of food-getting, as in everything else, man is only finite.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

Then, sixty years ago, came Commodore Perry, knocking down her doors and letting in the knowledge and machinery of the superior food-getting efficiency of the Western world.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

Wonderful artifices have been made, and marvellous inventions, all tending to increase tremendously man's natural efficiency of I in every food-getting, shelter-getting exertion, in farming, mining, manufacturing, transportation, and communication.

Revolution 2010

Has the caveman's natural efficiency of I for food-getting and shelter-getting diminished in modern man to one-half or one-quarter?

Revolution 2010

Nor since the day of the caveman has man's efficiency for food-getting and shelter-getting diminished.

Revolution 2010

It is undeniable that population will increase prodigiously-just as it has increased prodigiously during the last few centuries, following upon the increase in food-getting efficiency.

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