3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
