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Increase Quotes by Thomas Malthus
- Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may…
- Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of…
- 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…
- Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
- The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are…
- No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
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