THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which … - Thomas Malthus

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Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.

Thomas Malthus

THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.

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Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

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The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

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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 the first power in comparison of the second.

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The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

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