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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

~Thomas Malthus

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A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

~Thomas Malthus

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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

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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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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

~Thomas Malthus

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It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

~Thomas Malthus

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The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

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The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

~Thomas Malthus

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: February 13th, 1766

Died: December 23rd, 1834

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