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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
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
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Sociologist
Statistician
Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
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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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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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