Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more pe… - Thomas Malthus
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more pe…
- Thomas Malthus
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. - Thomas Malthus
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. - Thomas Malthus
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers… - Thomas Malthus
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers…
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of ce… - Thomas Malthus
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of ce…
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of … - Thomas Malthus
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of …
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. - Thomas Malthus
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. - Thomas Malthus
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and t… - Thomas Malthus
The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and t…
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