Thomas Robert Malthus
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English economist and cleric (1766 to 1834); author of An Essay on the Principle of Population.
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Unchecked population grows geometrically, while subsistence grows only arithmetically (opens korrents.com)
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”
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No scheme of equality or land reform could lift population pressure for even a century (opens korrents.com)
“No fancied equality, no agrarian regulations in their utmost extent, could remove the pressure of it even for a single century.”
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If its premises hold, the population argument rules out perfecting the mass of mankind (opens korrents.com)
“Consequently, if the premises are just, the argument is conclusive against the perfectibility of the mass of mankind.”
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Unchecked population grows geometrically, while subsistence grows only arithmetically (opens korrents.com)