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Malthusianism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Core of Mouthless Thought

The essay population is rewritten or revised a number of times in the first third of the 19th century. At its harshest, he's saying there's not space at natures table for everybody. He says we ought to allow some infants and babies to die away because they're never going to be very productive. And if they die well, that's being cruel to be kind That's almost uh his ideas change slightly as this essay population is written.

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