"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that……" — Thomas Malthus
"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
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Thomas Malthus
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33 Quotes by Thomas Malthus
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The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by…
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is…
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a…
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The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the…
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed…
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers…
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by…
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The perpetual struggle for room and food.
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are…
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