With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest … - Thomas Malthus

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Thomas Malthus

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

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