
Malthusianism
In Our Time: Philosophy
How to Prevent Sexual Satisfaction
Malthus describes everything in terms of two basic principles vice and misery. He doesn't really he doesn't advocate that he says that there are alternatives Yeah, and those alternatives Just to say in the first edition what what I think most readers now would find very kind of surprising about it Is that well, there is a bit about how you can prevent these things by later marriage And also the other alternative is the gradual abolition of the poor laws The system of parish relief that props up people in times of Bad harvest.
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