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Human Quotes by Thomas Malthus
- The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population,…
- It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in…
- The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape…
- It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place…
- In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much…
- [P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most…
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