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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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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Scientist
Sociologist
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Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
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The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.
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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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In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
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The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
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In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
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Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife
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Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
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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?
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The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.
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The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth they may increase forever.
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Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.
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Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!
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The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.
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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
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It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.
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