Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus
The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth14 February 1766
order political gross
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
children wife three
Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife
mean men animal
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.
littles attention opponents
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
men might ratios
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
thinking foundation found
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
afterwards effects increase power repressed room wherever
Wherever there is liberty, the power of increase is exerted, and the superabundant effects are repressed afterwards by want of room and nourishment.
asks beings bring cannot career means provide reason whether whom
Reason interrupts man's career and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of subsistence.
higher histories mankind possess
The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher classes.