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An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. Thomas Malthus. London. Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard 1798. © 1998, Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project. http://www.esp.org.
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An Essay on the Principle of Population1 . (1798) Thomas Robert Malthus . I think I may fairly make two postulata. First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary, and will remain nearly in its present state.
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Series editors RAYMOND GEUSS Professor of Political Science, Columbia University QUENTIN SKINNER Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge This series will make available to students the most important texts required for an understanding of the history of political thought. The scholarship of the present generation has greatly e...
Malthus made no claim to originality so far as his basic principle was concerned. That population depends on the availability of subsistence, and will respond to changes in that availability, was an eighteenth-century commonplace, with David Hume, Adam Smith, and Robert Wallace being the figures to whom Malthus gave most credit for his own initial ...
Striking a balance between negative and positive forces, defining the golden mean in both private and public conduct, characterizes much of Malthus's thinking as a political moralist. The population principle served a negative polemical purpose - more prominent in the first edition of the Essay - in denying that Godwin's (in some ways) appealing vi...
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Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was an English priest, economist, and demographer best known for his theory of unsustainable population growth, which contradicted more optimistic but widely held views. In his anonymously published An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus emphasized the fact that every resource is limited, and he ...
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Apr 23, 2021 · 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 by Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834
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An essay on the principle of population by Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834; Gilbert, Geoffrey, 1948-
