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Thomas Malthus

Born: February 14, 1766

Died: December 29, 1834

Nationality: English

Occupation: Economist

Biography: The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography. Malthus popularized the economic theory of rent.

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Thomas Malthus

“The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: An Essay on the Principle of Population (1993 edition), Oxford University Press - ISBN: 9780191605949

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Thomas Malthus

“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”

- Thomas Malthus

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Thomas Malthus

“The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.”

- Thomas Malthus

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Thomas Malthus

“The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.”

- Thomas Malthus

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Thomas Malthus

“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter I, paragraph 18, lines 1-2 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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Thomas Malthus

“The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter IV, paragraph 13, lines 11-15 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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Thomas Malthus

“To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter V, paragraph 2, lines 1-5 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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Thomas Malthus

“The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter V, paragraph 3, lines 5-8 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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Thomas Malthus

“I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter V, paragraph 13, lines 1-3 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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Thomas Malthus

“Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter V, paragraph 23, lines 3-7 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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Thomas Malthus

“To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter V, paragraph 25, lines 4-5 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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Thomas Malthus

“It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter VII, paragraph 10, lines 8-10 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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Thomas Malthus

“The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter VII, paragraph 20, lines 2-4 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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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.”

- Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes: Chapter IX, paragraph 7, lines 1-4 - An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798 First Edition, unrevised)

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