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When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.

Thomas Malthus

Errors, Able, Causes

Thomas Robert Malthus “An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions”, Cambridge University Press

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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

Mean, Animal, Men

"In Honor of Halloween, Let’s Finally Let Zombie Bob Rest in Peace" by John Seager, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2013.

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To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Thomas Malthus

Men, Misery, Recurrence

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.48, eKitap Projesi

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If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

Thomas Malthus

Running, Country, Successful

Thomas Robert Malthus “An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions”, Cambridge University Press

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The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

Thomas Malthus

Views, Political, Branches

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin UK

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It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

Thomas Malthus

Philosophy, Fall, Agency

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.62, eKitap Projesi

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With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

Thomas Malthus

Age, Doe, World

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.75, eKitap Projesi

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The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

Thomas Malthus

Philosophy, Firsts, Theory

Thomas Robert Malthus “An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions”, Cambridge University Press

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To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.

Thomas Malthus

Country, Discovery, Soldier

Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application”, p.49

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The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

Thomas Malthus

Doubt, Population, Doctrine

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The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

Thomas Malthus

Years, Germs, World

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.13, eKitap Projesi

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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

Thomas Malthus

Forever, Earth, May

Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.9, University of Michigan Press

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The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Thomas Malthus

Struggle, Cooking, Emigration

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.59, Penguin UK

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

Thomas Malthus

Philosophy, Economy, Theory

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.11, eKitap Projesi

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On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.

Thomas Malthus

Encouragement, Giving, Balance

Thomas Robert Malthus, Edward Anthony Wrigley, David Souden (1986). “The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus: Principles of political economy. Part 2”

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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.

Thomas Malthus

Class, Eugenics, Euthanasia

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.49, Penguin UK

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The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

Thomas Malthus

Encouragement, Population, Multiplication

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The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.

Thomas Malthus

Class, Air, Appearance

Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.88

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Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

Thomas Malthus

Agriculture, Corporations, Causes

Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.33, University of Michigan Press

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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.

Thomas Malthus

Taken, Men, Discovery

Thomas Robert Malthus (1986). “The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus”

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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

Thomas Malthus

Order, Political, Gross

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.10, eKitap Projesi

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THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.

Thomas Malthus

Country, Mean, Progress

"Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Robert Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On the Progress of Wealth", Section I, p. 309, 1836.

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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.

Thomas Malthus

Equality, Simple, Virtue

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.16, eKitap Projesi

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The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

Thomas Malthus

Mean, Evil, Balance

"Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application". Book by Thomas Robert Malthus, Book II, Chapter I, "On The Progress of Wealth", Section X, p. 430, 1836.

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The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

Thomas Malthus

Men, Law, Independence

Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.24, University of Michigan Press

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Born: February 14, 1766
Died: December 23, 1834
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