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

Thomas Malthus

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Thomas Malthus
Age: 68 †
Born: 1766
Born: February 14
Died: 1834
Died: December 23
Anglican Priest
Demographer
Economist
Essayist
Mathematician
Scientist
Sociologist
Statistician
Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
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Earth
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Race
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