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
evil despair world
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
science numbers ratios
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.
population world food-supply
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
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 earth population
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
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.
men race earth
The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
thinking foundation found
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
children wife three
Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife