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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.

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
Poor
Crowds
Recommending
House
Towns
Narrower
Make
Contrary
Cleanliness
People
Court
Plague
Habit
Houses
Streets
Encourage
Return
Habits
Instead
Crowd

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