non-economizing

Updated: May 7, 2025

That human populations are physiologically capable of indefinite increase, if time be allotted, is admitted, and must be admitted by any one who has given the slightest attention to the subject. Among the non-economizing animals and plants, it is not the limits of their procreative power but the limits of subsistence which determine their numbers.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.