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- DictionaryMal·thus, Thomas Robert/ˈmôlTHəs/
- 1. (1766–1834), English economist and clergyman. In An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) he argued that without the practice of “moral restraint” the population tends to increase at a greater rate than its means of subsistence, resulting in the population checks of war, famine, and epidemic.
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