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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus
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Thomas Malthus
Age: 68 †
Born: 1766
Born: February 14
Died: 1834
Died: December 23
Anglican Priest
Demographer
Economist
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Mathematician
Scientist
Sociologist
Statistician
Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
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