The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-05-24

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feet.
icy There is no exception to the rule
that every organic being naturally increas-
es at so high 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 twenty-five
years, and at this rate in less than thous-
and years, there would literally not be
standing room for his progeny. Linnaus
has calculated that if an annual plant pro-
duced only two seeds-and there is no
plant 30 unproductive as this-and their
seedlings next years produced two and SO
OH, that in twenty years there would be a
million plants. The elephant is reckoned
the slowest breeder of all known animals,
and | have taken some pains to estimate
its probable minimum rate of natural in
crease; it will be safe to assume that il
begins breeding when thirty years DID, and
goes on breeding till ninety years old,
bringing forth six young in the intervals,
and surviving till one hundred years old
80 years there would be nearly nineteen
million elephants alive, descended from
the pair. DARWIN.